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Spiritual Flashlights 



GODLY MEN AND WOMEN 



BY S. A, PERRY 



To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; to 
receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity. A wise man 
will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto 
wise counsels. Prov. 1:2, 3, 5. 



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PREFATORY NOTE. 



How we love the voices of our friends, and how we love 
the printed pages where their language has been set in type 
to bless the reader. How the world would get along without 
good reading is a question that has never been answered. 
We love light and knowledge for both body and soul. 

I have carefully prepared this book for the press, and 
have given names and titles just as I found them, and 
surely it will be a blessing to all who read it. I have been 
years in gathering what is here published. I am a lover of 
bright thoughts that flash a light on the heart, and give 
strength to the soul. Of late I have been led to get this 
book ready for the press, to be made a blessing to others. 
When I only had a small part of it written I let a lady read 
it, and she gave her heart to God, and has gone to her 
reward. There is light and salvation all through this book. 
Many of these whose words are here recorded have gone 
to their rest, but their words still live to bless mankind, 
and their works do follow them. All the profits of these 
books are the Lord's, and will be used for the advance- 
ment of His cause. The Author. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Illustrations rightly used are a great help in revealing 
truth. This book is full of beautiful word pictures on var 
ous subjects. The title that the author has selected indicates 
the subject matter. Flashlights are needed most in the 
darkness. They instantly disperse the gloom, and enable 
all that have eyes to see, to know where they are, and 
reveal all danger that may exist. Spiritual flashlights are 
as old as the plan of salvation. God has many ways of 
revealing truth. He speaks through creation. His provi- 
dence is plainly seen. His Spirit gradually opens the mind 
and heart of lost humanity to comprehend His truth. But 
flashlights are sudden inspirations or revelations of divine 
things. We read how the light flashed on Abram, Moses, 
Elijah, Samuel, David, Daniel, and a host of others, and 
they were suddenly and divinely illuminated to behold the 
wonderful things of God. When divine light flashed on 
the young servant of the prophet Elisha, his eyes were im- 
mediately opened to behold the host of heaven. When light 
from heaven suddenly flashed on Saul of Tarsus, he saw 
the glory of God that outshines the sun. When the Holy 
Ghost fell on the early disciples, the great flashlight was 
like the radiant sunburst, and proved a great searchlight 
to the whole church and the world. 

Many of these flashlights were recorded when the speak- 
ers were at their very best. We believe that light will flash 

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6 INTRODUCTION. 

on many hearts as they read them, and that they will prove 
to be searchlights also. The compiler has spent years in 
attending camp-meetings, conferences, conventions, and re- 
vival meetings, and has gleaned from many thousands of 
religious books and papers, many of the best thoughts of 
many of the best men and women of this century. The book 
is a ready mine of illustrations for all engaged in Christian 
work. It is especially adapted to the needs of busy people 
that want immediate help for themselves and others. It 
is free from narrowness, prejudice, and bigotry. It records 
spiritual truth as revealed through godly men and women 
of all denominations, and it should be read and endorsed 
by the whole family of God, regardless of denominational 
distinctions. I am personally acquainted with the author, 
and feel assured that the book is written with a pure motive 
and for the glory of God. Praying God's blessing on all the 
living whose names appear herein, and especially upon the 
friends and relatives of those departed, and on all that have 
the privilege of reading these spiritual flashlights, I am, 

Yours in the interest of the faith once delivered to the 
saints, S. B. Shaw. 

Chicago, III, April, 190$. 



LIST OF SUBJECTS. 

PAGE 

Acquaintance with God 1 1 

Assurance 12 

Atonement 13 

Backsliders 14 

Baptism of the Holy Ghost 15 

Burden Bearing 18 

Character 18 

Character of Christ 19 

Charity 21 

Children 21 

Christian Beneficence 22 

Christian Experience 24 

Christianity 25 

Christian Warfare 25 

Christlikeness 27 

Church 31 

Communion with God ' 32 

Compassion 35 

Confession 36 

Conscience , 36 

Consecration 37 

Consistency 45 

Conversion 46 

Conviction 49 

Courage 51 

Culture 54 

Death 55 

Death to Self 56 

Deity 5S 

Dependence on God 60 

Depravity 60 

Discipline 61 

Divine Love 67 

Divinity of Christ 69 

Eternal Punishment 69 

Example 70 

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8 LIST OF SUBJECTS. 

Failure 70 

Faith 71 

Faith for Others 86 

Faithful Ministry 87 

Faithfulness 92 

Fanaticism 95 

Fear 96 

Fellowship 96 

Forgiveness 97 

Fruit Bearing 98 

Gentleness 99 

Glory 100 

Godliness 101 

Godly Fear 101 

Gospel 102 

Grace to; 

Gratitude iaS 

Growth 108 

Guidance 1 1 1 

Healing 118 

Heaven 119 

Hell 121 

Holiness 121 

Hospitality [J}5 

Hope 136 

Humility 137 

Idolatry 1 4.} 

Immortality 14 t 

Importunity 145 

Individuality 1 [0 

Indwelt. ing Christ 146 

Indwelling Holy Simrit 14N 

Influence 152 

Intercession 157 

Joy 158 

Judging 164 

Kingdom of God 164 

Life 165 

Light 166 

Love 167 

Meditation 1 75 



LIST OF SUBJECTS. 9 

Meekness 175 

Memory 176 

Mercy 176 

Missions 177 

Moderation 178 

Obedience 178 

Opportunity 185 

Pardon 186 

Patience 186 

Peace 188 

Pentecost 191 

Perfection 192 

Perfect Love 192 

Persecution 193 

Perseverance 194 

Power 195 

Praise 199 

Prayer 201 

Pride 221 

Promises 222 

Providence -. 225 

Purity 227 

Reason 229 

Regeneration 229 

Repentance 232 

Responsibility ; 234 

Rest 235 

Revelation 237 

Revivals 237 

Reward 239 

Righteousness 240 

Sabbath 241 

Sacrifice 242 

Salvation 243 

Sanctification 249 

Second Coming 255 

Seeking after God 256 

Self-Denial 256 

Selfishness 257 

Separation 257 

Service 258 



IO LIST OF SUBJECTS. 

Sin 271 

Sincerity 275 

Soberness of Mind 276 

Sorrow 276 

Soul Hunger 278 

Soul Winning 279 

Spirituality 287 

Spiritual Vision 288 

Steadfastness 289 

Strength 290 

Submission 291 

Success 295 

Temptation 297 

Testimony 300 

The Blood 302 

The Cross 304 

The Heart 304 

The Holy Spirit 305 

The Judgment 310 

The Soul 310 

The Will 311 

The Word 312 

Trials 322 

Trust 326 

Truth 327 

Unbelief 328 

Unity 329 

Victory 330 

Watchfulness '. 334 

Witness of the Spirit 335 

Wisdom 336 

Work of Christ 336 

Worldliness ^y 

Zeal 338 

Miscellaneous 339 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS 



ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD. 

We had never known God if He had not said to us, " I 
will forgive your iniquities." — Selected. 

A man does not begin to live until he knows God. — Rev. 
C. O. Moulton. 

If I would know more of God, I must relax the strain 
and moderate the pace — must "be still." — /. H. Jouett. 

If we live pure and holy lives before God, He will speak 
in a simple way to us, and we will be satisfied. — /. W. S. 

Live on confidential terms with God. — vS\ L. Brengle. 

We must make God's acquaintance and talk to Him much 
in secret prayer. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

People have to believe God in order to know God. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

After Paul had seen the Lord on his way to Damascus 
and had a short talk with Him, he could never be persuaded 
to return to the lower levels of his life. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

There is a wide difference between knowing about God 
and knowing Him. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

There are those who know about God ; then there are 
those who know God; and to know Him is eternal life. — 
Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

Men never know God but by the Holy Ghost. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 



12 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Do not rest until you come to a full realization of God's 
presence and love, and know Him as you know no other. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We learn ourselves through the knowledge of God. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Acquaint thyself with Jesus, and thy peace will flow like 
a river. — Rev. Chas. N. Crittendon. 

So much depends upon our having a true Bible view of 
God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God, like the sun, must be seen by His own light. — Gerkie. 

Men who are a blessing to a community, only become so 
after they come to know God. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

We know God only as we live for Him. — Sunday-school 
Times. 

God must be known before He can be served. — Rev. H. 
C. Morrison. 



ASSURANCE. 

St. John had the word " know " in his life. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

The Spirit-filled life is a life of full assurance. — Rev. C. 
F. Wilcox. 

Simple and plain knowledge of God, and full assurance 
of faith, is my light, comfort, joy, and song. — Selected. 

It is not he that knoweth that shall do, but he that doeth 
God's will shall know of the doctrine. — Dr. Curry. 

The religion of Jesus Christ is the only religion that even 
promises full assurance. — Etta II. Shaw. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



We can know that we are partakers of the divine nature 
as surely as we know that we are partakers of human nature. 
— Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



ATONEMENT. 

The atonement is as broad as the fall. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

The blood of Christ is the procuring cause and founda- 
tion of our salvation from all sin. — Hall Mission Bulletin. 

Christ came to die for all mankind, of every nation, kin- 
dred, color, and clime. — Christian Witness. 

Christ lived for our benefit and died for our salvation. — 
Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

We are saved by the blood, educated by circumstances. — 
Dr. Morrison. 

Christ's death is the keystone to the arch of truth. Have 
you Christ to-day? — Selected. 

Christ, the second Adam, came to meet man and make 
an atonement to cover every point the curse covered. — Rev. 
G. N. Eldridge. 

It will take all there is in the atonement of God to get us 
into heaven. — Rev. Glascock. 

All that the evil one did, Christ came to undo. — iV. /. 
Holmes. 

When the Son of God " had overcome the sharpness of 
death," He opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. — 
Dr. Daniel Steele. 

Through the promised atonement of Christ, God designed 
a way by which He could reveal Himself to every obedient 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



child of man, and bring him back to communion with Him- 
self. — Old-Time Religion. 

It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. — /. R. 
McLaren. 

The atonement of Christ is the center of religious his- 
tory. — Wm. Smith, LL. D. 

God and human nature are linked together, and every one 
can be saved who will. — Bishop Joyce. 

Everything that Christ did, had in it the sacrificial ele- 
ment. — Matthias S. Kaufman, D. D., Ph. D. 

If we give soft names to sin, we depreciate the value of 
that blood which was shed to save us from sin. — Christian 
Witness 

We know the world has no remedy apart from Jesus 
Christ, from His gospel, from His precious blood. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

Withdraw from the world the restraining grace of God 
and all influence of the atonement of Christ, and in one hour 
you would have a hell upon earth. — 5*. B. Shaw. 

The atonement is as broad as the fall. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 



BACKSLIDERS. 

The parable of the prodigal son was written for the back- 
slider. The book of Hosea is his special manual and prayer- 
book. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

No one ever backslided on his knees. — Christian Witness. 

God's love will leak out of our hearts, if we are not 
watchful unto prayer. — Rev. John Norbcrry. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 5 

Love to backsliders. There is not enough of this divine 
love manifested toward those who have lost the joy and 
power of God's salvation. — Rev. John Norberry. 

The more of the love of Christ we possess, the more we 
shall be able to manifest toward the backslidden. — Rev. John 
Norberry. 

The second chapter of Jeremiah is emphatically a back- 
slider's chapter. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

One look of Jesus reclaimed Peter. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The first thing that people lose when they backslide, is 
tenderness of spirit. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

The baptism of fire burns up caste, and all human dis- 
tinctions that hinder divine unity. — 6\ B. Shaw. 

When you get the baptism of the Spirit, you get deeper 
views of the Bible. — Rev.^B. Caradine. 

The enduement of power always accompanies the bap- 
tism of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. Dougan Clark. 

No man living in the practice of any known sin, can re- 
ceive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Above all, the soul-winner needs a personal Pentecost. 
Have you got yours ? — Selected. 

God can make stalwart giants out of every one of us, if 
we seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire, and get 
the anointing He has for us. — E. A. K. 

God never meant for one of us to be saved and not receive 
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. — E. Winder. 



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Do not ask a weak Christian to work, but lead trim to 
receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and then he will 
work. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The baptism of the Holy Ghost takes the parleying" out 
of a man. — Selected. 

Are you living under John's baptism, or Christ's? — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

When God comes to the soul in His fiery baptism, one gets 
something. — Rev. BeVicr. 

In our earlier experiences we had the water of life 
springing up in our hearts ; but when we are baptized with 
the Holy Ghost, out from us will flow rivers of living 
water. — Rev. C. J. Fowler. 

When the baptism with the Holy Ghost comes, it gets us 
free — free to do and to be whatever God would have us do 
and he.— Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 

The pure river of life is the symbol of the Holy Spirit 
poured out upon the Church. It is the privilege of every 
soul to throw open the window and invite this river, like 
purity, to flow in and cleanse and fill him. — Bishop Tlwburn. 

Peter has coupled forever the baptism with the Holy 
Ghost and purity. — Rev. J. N. Harris. 

When the Church has the Pentecostal baptism, there is 
no lack of spiritual gifts or laborers. — Christian Witness. 

God wants to give us the fire of the Holy Ghost, so that 
we can withstand the fire of the judgment. — C. E. Cornell. 

The great blessing of the baptism of the Holy Ghost is 
what has kept me steady. — Rev. Keys. 

The baptism of the Holy Ghost purifies the garments of 
the soul and makes them clean. — Rev. Hulda A. Rees. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 17 

When the Holy Ghost comes, it is a real baptism ; and the 
presence of Jesus Christ becomes a blessed reality. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

You and I, with our doctrines and our truths, must have 
fire enough to make people hungry. — Rev. Byron J. Rees. 

It takes the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire, to make 
you walk as Jesus walked. — Sister Rees. 

The Holy Spirit is to be had for the asking. — Rev. S. A. 
Keen, D. D. 

Get the Holy Ghost and you will be severe when you 
ought to be severe, you will be rugged when you ought to 
be rugged, but you will have a velvet touch, a courtly finish, 
so that you will bless people wherever you go. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 

If you can move your lips or gasp, you can have the gift 
of the Holy Ghost.— Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 

When the fire of Pentecost gets into the hearts of the peo- 
ple, everybody comes running to know what it is. — Rev. 
Parsells. 

" My God, if there is a man in all this place that wants 
the anointing of the Holy Ghost, it is I ; but how to get it I 
don't know." And a voice said : " As you take forgiveness 
from the hands of the dying Christ, take the anointing from 
the hands of the living Christ." — Experience of Rev. F. B. 
Meyer. 

Christ came to baptize us with the Holy Ghost. — Rev. J. 
N. Short. 

How many of God's children do not apprehend their heir- 
ship to the Holy Ghost.— Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



BURDEN BEARING. 



We must carry our burdens no longer, but send for Jesus, 
and He will come and help us. — Rev. Fannie Birdsell. 

By carrying the burden of the Lord, we can relieve others 
from carrying the burden of sin. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The burden of the Lord is light, and if you are carrying 
any other kind, you had better lay it down and take up the 
Lord's. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

The burden we bear may not become less heavy, but the 
everlasting arm is slipped under it, and it no longer presses 
or chafes us. — Mrs. E. E. Williams. 

God tells us to burden Him with what burdens us. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 



CHARACTER. 

A true Christian is the highest style of man. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

Christ determines the exact nature and character of what 
all men should be ; all else is shadowy and visionary. — D. M. 
Smashey. 

True spiritual character does not begin with self-effort, 
but with self-renunciation. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

He who does not found his life on religion, is a lost man. — 
Emperor William of Germany. 

Let us be impartial, faithful, and God-fearing. — Rev. 
George P. Pardington. 

Be careful that you are yourself right with God. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 19 

Our character depends upon ourselves; our reputation 
may depend upon others. — Etta E. Shaw. 

The world does not see the reserved strength of Christian 
character. — May Leach. 

Christian character is Christlikeness. — Selected. 

Joseph is a most beautiful character study. — Rev. Joseph 
H. Smith. 



CHARACTER OF CHRIST. 

Christ never showed ill-will, even to an enemy. — Bishop 
Simpson. 

Christ borrowed no foreign character, but ever acted in 
His own. — D. M. Smashey. 

The gentleness, sympathy, charity, self-sacrificing dispo- 
sition, so characteristic of Jesus, belong to a man of sorrows, 
acquainted with grief. — Rev. Frank M. Bristol, D. D. 

Christ is a whole Saviour, and is never defeated. — Dr. 
Lyman Pettit. 

Every Christian ought to be, in his human measure, a 
new incarnation of the Christ, so that people will say, " He 
interprets Christ to me. He comforts me in my sorrows as 
Christ Himself would if He were to come and sit down 
beside me." — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

In the gospel of John, we have the inner life of our Lord 
laid open to us. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Let us study the character of Christ, until our souls are 
filled with love and admiration. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

We must remember that the Jehovah of the Old Testa- 
ment is the Christ of the New. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 



20 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Friends are nothing, fame is nothing, health is nothing ; 
Jesus, Jesus is all. — Payson. 

All we want in Christ we shall find in Christ. — Bishop 
Whipple. 

If you seek Christ, carry nothing with you. All you need 
in life, in death, in all eternity, is to be found in Him. — 
Christian Witness. 

Jesus is the king in the hearts of all His followers. — 
Selected. 

Not the " Son of David," but the " Lord ; " the recogni- 
tion of Christ's divinity brings His saving and healing 
touch. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

Fear not your mighty enemy, for in Christ you have an 
almighty Deliverer. — Silent Evangelist. 

Christ is to human hearts as the shadow of a great rock in 
a weary land. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Jesus was a man social in His character. — Dr. Levy. 

The serpent on the pole was a picture of Christ on the 
cross. He Himself used it as an illustration. — Westminster 
Quarterly. 

The most wonderful thing said about Jesus Christ is that 
"in Him was life." — Dr. Louis Albert Banks. 

Christ is the light of the world because in Him is life. — 
Dr. Louis Albert Banks. 

None can study the character of Christ without falling 
in love with Him. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

Jesus made the best possible use of His life. — H. C. Mor- 
rison. 

The attractive force in Christianity is Christ Himself. — 
Rev. Alexander McLaren, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 21 

There was no reserve in the nature of Jesus. — Dr. Louis 
Albert Banks. 

We are nothing, Christ is all. — George Fox. 

Jesus was a man of few words, and spoke nothing but 
what was for the furtherance of His Father's kingdom. — 
God's Revivalist. 

Christ is the essence of love. — Selected. 

Jesus is an eternal house carpenter. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Jesus has a vastness and a richness that few people under- 
stand. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Jesus, in writing to the seven churches, always gives 
Himself a new name to each one. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



CHARITY. 



Charity is better than all burnt-offerings. — Canon 
Farrar. 

Natural and acquired ability without Christian charity, 
is as destitute of God's presence as sounding brass or tink- 
ling cymbal. — Rev. S. B. Shazv. 

Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and only remem- 
ber the good points which make you fond of them. — 
Lutheran. 

CHILDREN. 

Peace on earth, good-will to men, is the child's natural 
attitude toward life. — Selected. 

Sometimes a child can teach us best how to pray. — Se- 
lected. 



22 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The family circle is God's great nursery for the culture of 
the heart. — E. P. Empy. 

He who helps a child helps humanity, with a distinctness, 
with an immediateness, which no other help given to human 
creatures in any other stage of their human life can pos- 
sibly give again. — Phillips Brooks. 

When I was fifteen, I believed in the Lord Jesus, and 
joined the church of Christ. — Spurge on. 

When Jesus was here on earth, He did not forget the 
children, neither is He forgetting them to-day. — Rev. C. E. 
Cowan. 

The one hundred and twelfth Psalm gives us a grip for 
our faith in God, for the blessing of our children both tem- 
porally and spiritually.- — Rev. George H. Smith. 

Some of the most eminent servants of Christ became His 
happy followers as early as the age of three, four, and five 
years. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The child who talks with God will not be likely to use bad 
words at any time. — Selected. 

In the death of children, heaven is receiving large con- 
tributions from earth. — Bishop CeTyreire. 



CHRISTIAN BENEFICENCE. 

Take care of your giving, and God will take care of your 
getting. — Selected. 

When God lives in us, how easily the Lord's tenth will 
be given for His glory, and the free-will offerings will come 
easy. — S. A. P. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 23 

Pentecost can not be skipped in the way of Christian giv- 
ing and genuine doing. It has normal place. — Rev. G. A 
McLaughlin. 

You let God have His tenth, and see how His cause will 
prosper. — Selected. 

Not a person can be found who comes to want if he gives 
the Lord His tenth. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The name of Christ should not be coupled with unscrupu- 
lous earning or with harmful giving. — Rev. George Calvert 
Carter. 

God has given you more or less money. Do you use as 
much as possible to brighten the lives of the needy and 
redeem the wanderers? — C. A. Jeifers. 

" Not mine, but God's," should be written across all our 
earthly treasures. — Selected. 

Real consecration will regulate the use of our money. — 
Dr. C. J. Fowler. 

The longest chapter in the Bible, the seventh of Numbers, 
containing eighty-nine verses and nearly two thousand 
words, is all about giving. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. ' 

Abraham did not set his heart on temporal prosperity. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God does not restrict us to one-tenth, but commands us to 
give as God has prospered us. — Rev. Wm. McDonald, D. D. 

May God help us all to see more and more the necessity 
of giving to support His cause. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Honor God with your substance, and He will honor you 
with His presence and wisdom and power. — Stephen 
Merritt. 

God does not want our gold without our love. — Selected. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



God asks us to lay aside something definitely for His 
work. — Rev. H. W. Westzvood. 

Christ has woven the scarlet thread of His blood into 
every dollar that the Christian owns. — Rev. George Quincn. 

Astounding grace is a giving grace. — Selected. 

God owns the whole earth ; and He puts into your hands 
and mine a certain investment on which He expects us to 
pay Him interest. — Rev. R. S. Cantine, D. D. 

We have no right to pay every other debt first, and give 
God what is left. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The baptism of the Holy Ghost always loosens purse 
strings and opens hearts and hands. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Money is talent lent from God, to be used as He directs. 
— Anna Abrams. 

The money you lend to Christ you will find again. — Chris- 
tian Standard. 

Blessed is he who has Christ for his treasurer. — Christian 
Standard. 



CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 

There is no selfishness in real Christianity. — Rev. G. IV. 
Ridout. 

To experience religion is not the event of an evening, but 
the work and the joy of a lifetime. — Mary A. Safford. 

A real Christian experience is always a rational expe- 
rience. — /. W . 

Look up to Jesus and keep your eye off the people, if you 
would enjoy a delightful, even, easy Christian experience. 
Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



To truth's house there is a single door, which is expe- 
rience. — Bayard Taylor. 

The fullest Christian experience is simply the fullest life. 
— Phillips Brooks. 



CHRISTIANITY. 

The early triumphs of the gospel were miracles of grace 
and power, and the same power must still be recognized or 
we shall cease to have a living Christianity. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

The whole of Christianity is composed of three things — 
to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus Christ. — Scriver. 

Out-and-out Christianity is not popular. — Dr. Torrey. 

Christianity is from above. It has never been worked 
out from below. — Rev. Henry Ostrom. 

The only bright spots in the world are where Christianity, 
in its purity, has been preached. — Christian Witness. 

Christianity is love incarnated in human life. — Rev. L. A. 
Banks. 

Ugly Christianity is not Christ's. — Alexander McLaren. 

In one word, Christianity is personal friendship with 
Christ.— William M. Baker. 



CHRISTIAN WARFARE. 

There is always the winepress to be trodden before we 
drink the juice of the grapes. There is always a battle to 
be fought before the victory is ours. — Dean Stanley. 



26 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Every true child of God must face the foe ere a victory 
is won. — E. Van Dusen. 

When the Lord saves us, we enter the battlefield, and the 
fight never ends till life is over. — E. Winder. 

Jesus Christ has given us the marching orders. He expects 
us to be good, true, loyal soldiers. — Rev. H. Zehr. 

Bless your enemies ; love all men ; do good to all ; breathe 
out love in acts, no matter how dead your heart may feel, 
and you will become a valiant soldier, and one whom God 
can trust to honor Him in hard places. — Mrs. Mabbette 
Anderson. 

Sin may rage all around us, but the Lord, who is our 
great captain, will go before, and never let us be defeated. 
— E. Winder. 

The stronger you are, the more numerous and bitter will 
your enemies be. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Our victories over self and sin and the world are always 
first fought where no eye sees but God's. — Whitfield. 

Do something in this great battle for God and truth. — 
Spurge on. 

Take the world as you find it, and endure hardness for 
the sake of Christ and His cause. — Rev. C. 0. Moult on. 

The real gospel brings on a battle with sin. — Rev. G. A. 
McLaughlin. 

Paul was satisfied to " fight the good fight of faith." — 
Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

It is through conflict that we pass to triumph, and con- 
flict is the essential condition of your growth in strength. 
/. O. Rankin. 

The fight with our foes is not ours, but the Lord's. — Dr. 
G. P. Pardington. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 27 

Read up the old muster roll of the saints in the eleventh 
chapter of Hebrew's, gird up the belt a notch higher, shout 
a real fresh Hallelujah, and rally for newer and wider con- 
quest. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

We must gird on the gospel armor tightly about us, and 
go out to grapple with stern realities. — Rev. A. A. Phelps. 

Put on the whole armor of God, and stand your ground. 
— Selected. 

God's people are warriors wherever God places them. — 
Selected. 

The more your life work is worth to God, the greater will 
be the difficulties you will have to work against. — Way of 
Life. 

God can never lead you on to become trusted soldiers, 
until you learn to walk by naked faith. — Mrs. Mabbette An- 
derson. 

The Lord fights for us when we trust Him. — Rev. A. B t 
Simpson. 



CHRIST-LIKENESS. 

We are to be made like Jesus Christ in life. — Rev. M. M. 
Bales. 

Jesus is our real example, and if we follow Him, we will 
pray with and for others. — M. G. Standley. 

Christians should not forget that the world expects to 
see in them a reflection of the mind and temper of the Lord 
Jesus. — Religious Telescope. 

He who gives himself to Christ becomes in time like the 
blessed Redeemer, and is enabled to follow the path Christian 
feet should tread. — Rev. Daniel Cookly. 



28 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The one controlling thought in the Bible, from lid to lid, 
is just this, that we might be made like Jesus. — Rev. M. M. 
Bales. 

In very many ways God is seeking to bring us to the like- 
ness of His dear Son. Let us not draw back from Him. — 
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business 
of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards. 

Christ's life easily divides itself into two sections. First, 
there were His thirty silent years, and then His three years 
of marvelous Spirit-filled redemptive work ; and every bit 
of it is typical of your life and mine. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

To become like Christ is the only thing in the world 
worth caring for. — Drummond. 

Let us by the Holy Spirit be made like Christ, in patience, 
in humility, in love, in faithfulness, in fidelity, and all other 
virtues. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

Jesus, the meek and lowly One, calls us to learn of Him 
the path to God. — Rev. Andreiu Murray. 

You and I have no right to love that which Jesus Christ 
does not love, and all our loves and all our dislikes are to 
be determined not from the standpoint of our pleasure or 
will, but entirely from the standpoint of Christ's pleasure. 
What He puts His veto upon, we are to put our veto upon, 
and that without compromise, eternally. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

For every look at self, take ten looks at Christ. — F. B. 
Meyer, B. A. 

Loving Christ deeply, truly, makes us Christ-like. — Fran- 
ces Ridley Havcrgal 

When we meet people who are not loving or pleasurable, 
nor congenial, we shall prove the love of Christ by wit 
ing unto them. — Mrs. Lamson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 29 

Get the principles of Jesus Christ in you, and you will 
act as Jesus Christ would, under the same circumstances. — 
Rev. Bud Robinson. 

No more ardent specialist than Paul ever lived. For him 
to live was Christ. — M. D. Babcock. 

A Christ-like life is precious in the sight of the heavenly 
Father. — V. Chaffin. 

The life of every Christian should be a correct likeness 
of Christ's life.— Rev. N. K. Melton. 

" The word of the Lord abideth forever." So shall they 
who, by the living Word, come to manhood in the likeness 
of Christ. — Llewellyn A. Morrison. 

As we receive by faith the life of Christ to be our life, we 
become Christ's representatives. — Rev. Alex. B. Boddy. 

Every true Christian longs to be like Jesus. — Rev. N orris. 

The life of Christ is the believer's pattern. — Rev. D. Y. 
Schults. 

It is easy to be Christ-like when we have the Christ nature. 
— Rev. Robert Smylie, D. D. 

The best men, the Christ-like men, are those who in the 
midst of the unpleasant surroundings of life, can be holy 
and pure. — Rev. Thos. J. E. Wright. 

As we walk in the light, we come to the experience of 
Christ. — Dr. Levy. 

Do you love what Christ loves and hate what Christ 
hates ? — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

Saintliness is our high calling's glorious hope. — Rev. E. 
I. D. Pepper. 

A wife of a year pointed to an illuminated card on the 
mantel, and said, " That card saved my home." On the 
card were the four words, " What would Jesus do ? " — 
Ram's Horn. 



30 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

If we walk as Christ walked, we will forget our own ease, 
our own comfort, and follow in His footsteps. — Sister Rees. 

Jesus Christ requires nothing of man that He has not 
Himself practised. — D. M. Smashey. 

We are to be like Christ in heart and principle. — Rev. C. 
0. Moulton. 

The longer Jesus teaches you, the more like Jesus you 
become. — 5*. A. P. 

If you sit at the feet of Jesus, you will get His impress 
upon you ; but the longer you sit at the feet of Jesus, the 
more the devil will hate you, and the more the saints will 
love you. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

It is the great purpose of the gospel to make us like Jesus. 

— Dr. Levy. 

Christ-likeness bears itself independent of all human 
honor. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Every child of God is a reproduction of Jesus. — Selected. 

" The marks of the Lord Jesus " are the truest badge of 
genuineness and power. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The most beautiful thing that this world ever saw is the 
Christ-like character. — Rev. T. E. Sharp, D. D. 

It is only as Christ lives in us that He can do His will in 
us. — Sister L. H. Kenny, evangelist. 

When we get the living Christ in us, we have something 
that God honors. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

The more grace we have, the more like Christ we will be. 

— Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



CHURCH. 



It is always when the fortune of the church is at its low- 
est that God sends His servants, the prophets, to rouse it 
and to cleanse it. — Rev. Jones. 

The Christian church is God's great agency for saving a 
lost world.— C. H. Wilcox, Ph. D. 

The church is the natural outgrowth of the home. — W . P. 
Empy. 

God designs the church shall bind the wounds of the 
afflicted, heal the broken-hearted, bear one another's bur- 
dens, so fulfilling the law of Christ. — /. A. Snead. 

The church has a divine mission which is twofold; to 
saints and to sinners. — David W. Muir, Jr. 

Jesus doesn't want the church, the bride, to get beyond 
His voice. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The dressing-room is here, and God is calling the church 
to don her white robes at once that she may be ready for 
living and for her coronation. — Rev. Henry Varley. 

We are the bride. Let us enter into all that the Husband 
has for us. No longer my Lord, but my Husband. — John 
McGahie. 

What we want in this day more than anything else is a 
church re-formed to the pattern of Christ. — Rev. G. Camp- 
bell Morgan. 

A good man's home and his church are very close to- 
gether in his heart. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

There is no society like the church of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

A Spirit-baptized church is a gifted church. — Rev. D. T. 
Schults. 



32 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

That Christian church is the most Christ-like which does 
the most to seek and save the lost. — Rev. T. L. Cuyler. 

The church made up of Spirit-filled members will have 
" power.'' — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The only object worthy of the Christian church is to carry 
on and complete the work that Christ began while clothed 
in mortal flesh. — Rev. S. B. Shazv. 

Let the church of God be a society for the diffusion of 
the principles of universal peace. — Josiah M. Leeds. 

God is waiting and pleading for an opportunity to pour 
out His Spirit on the church, but He can not do it until con- 
ditions are met. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

When we attach ourselves to Christ we become members 
of a society and can no longer live an isolated life. We must 
live for the body we belong to. — Marcus Dods, D. D. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 

There can be wonderful changes brought about by con- 
tinual communion with God. — Hattie Goldman. 

There is no danger of a Christian spending too much time 
alone with God. — /. H. Stitmpf. 

We shall have the sense of God's presence in proportion 
as we put the world out and unless we have some place 
where we may frequently meet Him, we are deprived of a 
blessing which comes in no other way. — Rev. Cornelius 
Woolfkin, D. D. 

Nothing humbles the soul like sacred and intimate com- 
munion with the Lord ; yet there is a sweet joy in feeling 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 33 

that He knows all, and notwithstanding, loves us still. — /. 
Hudson Taylor. 

The entering into the presence of God, and communing 
with Him, is the renewal of our spiritual atmosphere. — Se- 
lected. 

The secret of spiritual power is being alone with God. — 
Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

Oh, what a glorious thing it is to walk arm-in-arm with 
Jesus in all our enterprises and undertakings. — Mr. Baily. 

He who lives with Christ finds it easier to live for Christ. 
— /. O. R. 

Christ does not want patronage, but fellowship. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

You can not possibly enjoy communion with God and go 
where God does not go. — Dr. Guilyon. 

We can not afford to live a day without communion with 
Christ, to get His strength, joy, and peace into our hearts. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

A quiet hour spent with God at the beginning of the day, 
is the best beginning for the toils and cares of active busi- 
ness. — Philadelphia Methodist. 

When you get a blessing from God when you are all alone, 
it is clear and unmixed. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Jesus communes with all His saints. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Communion with God makes us light-hearted, strong, 
swift, bold, and buoyant, and still keeps us at our post, at 
desk, mill, study, kitchen, farm, office, or shop. — Ella Lewis. 

They who stir the world for righteousness are such as 
know by experience the quiet of the inner chamber. — Dr. 
Baines Griff eths. 
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34 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

He who would do much for God must hold communion 
with Him often. — Christian Witness. 

It is sweet to be called from a life of depravity to a life of 
sweet communion with God. — Selected. 

O for closer communion with God till soul and body, head 
and heart, shine with divine brilliancy! But O, for a holy 
ignorance of their shining ! — M. C. Cheyene. 

My brother, my sister, there is a place where God alone 
becomes a fountain of sweetness and gladness and gentle 
contentment in our lives ; so let us keep lowly enough to find 
it. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God has something more for us every time we meet Him. 
— Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie. 

Beloved, keep in touch with God. Whatever comes, what- 
ever proves true or false, in storm or sunshine, keep in touch 
with God. — Mrs. E. E. Williams. 

A saved heathen's testimony : " I look down to the Bible, 
and God speaks to me ; then I look up in prayer, and I speak 1 ' 
to the Lord ; so we keep up this way, a holy talk with each 
other." — Selected. 

Keep in company with Jesus, and you will be able to over- 
come every foe. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

Without purity of heart and perfect love, our communion 
with God will be interrupted and intermittent. — Rev. J. A. 
Wood. 

Are our souls in tune to-day for divine messages? If not, 
can we expect to receive them ? — Wellspring. 

A pleasant walk with God in the pleasant part of the day 
no longer pleases some ; because they have sinned, feel 
guilty, and would rather hide from God. — Christian 
Standard. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



COMPASSION. 



The one thing especially that will keep us always in God's 
way, is a real tender compassionate spirit. God worketh in 
us, and touches and melts our hearts, so that we love to 
obey. — E. H. Cook. 

Nothing moves the heart of Jesus like distress. — Rev. J. 
H. Flower. 

The great heart of Jesus beats in pity for every sinner. — 
Rev. J. H. Flower. 

God is always comforting His sorrowing children. — /. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

We often do more good by our sympathy than by our 
labors. — Canon Farrar. 

The " motive power " of Jesus' life was compassion. — 
Rev. E. P. Knight. 

In Jesus' breast can be found a place for all the griefs and 
sorrows of the human family. — Nettie Peabody. 

Show] us the man or woman with a great heart of sym- 
pathy, and we will show you one whom God will use and 
souls will bless. — Mrs. E. Resdon. 

The Word tells us that God is " full of compassion," and 
that Christ was repeatedly " moved with compassion." The 
true child of God, the true disciple of Christ, is easily and 
deeply moved by the needs and the sorrows of others. — Etta 
E. Shaw. 



36 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

CONFESSION. 

If God's people everywhere would honor Him by humbly 
acknowledging their faults just as far as the Spirit enables 
them to see them, we would soon see such a revival as has 
not been witnessed since apostolic days! — S. B. Shaw. 

If you will confess your sins at Jesus' feet, He will send 
His love into your heart. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

Sin can not be gotten rid of until confessed out and quit. 
— Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Blessed is the man who has grace enough to own up. — 
Selected 

The smallest sin unconfessed will rob you of both peace 
and power. — Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 



CONSCIENCE. 

Loving God as a person is the only kind of love that calls 
for the uttermost capabilities of our nature, and the peculiar 
individuality of our conscience. — Dr. G. D. Watson. 

A good conscience is sensitive to the will of Christ. — H. 
M. McCluskey. 

Conscience is a sore trouble. It gives no rest to those 
who have sinned. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

A guilty conscience paralyzes the arm of justice and pol- 
lutes the hand of mercy. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

It is sin that gives us the painful knowledge that we have 
a conscience which has come into collision with God's pure 
law. — Rev. G. D. Watson, 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



CONSECRATION. 



It does not take great men to do great things; it only 
takes consecrated men. — Phillips Brooks. 

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are 
buried in the will of God. — Faber. 

God can do great things with our lives, if we but give 
them to Him in sincerity. — Lindsay. 

God loves to give to those who love to let Him have His 
way. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

To be abandoned to the will of God and let Him have 
undisputed sway in the soul, working through that soul " to 
will and to do," is a state of consecration. — Arthur O'Rear. 

Consecration means to be, to do, and to suffer the will of 
God. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Some will sacrifice for some things, but will not yield all 
to God.— Rev. G. E. Noble. 

We are living on the life of God, and we must live like 
Him and for Him. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

If wle are willing to let God choose for us and to accept 
what He gives, we shall never fail to receive the best; per- 
haps not what earth calls the best, but always God's best. — 
/. R. Miller, D. D. 

Let us'desire nothing but God's perfect will. — I. M. 

God may not explain to you a thousand things which 
puzzle your reason in His dealings v/ith you, but if you 
always see yourself to be His love-slave, He will waken up 
in you a jealous love, and bestow upon you many blessings 
which come only to those who are in the inner circle. — 
Silent Evangelist. 



38 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

All that I ask of Christ for myself is that I may endure 
with the heart of a man the evils that await me. I am a 
vessel of clay in His hands; let Him dash me in pieces, or 
strengthen me, as seemeth good to Him. — Zwingle. 

It does not matter what it is we have, Christ can use it 
provided it is all we have, to bless the world. — Rev. George 
P. Partington, Ph. D. 

Lord, make me an extraordinary Christian, not a luke- 
warm Christian, nor a half-hearted professor of religion. 
Make me eager to follow where Thou dost lead. — George 
Whitfield. 

Let us learn to love and trust and understand the will of 
our God. — Mrs. M. Baxter. 

Christ will take you at your word, and if you absolutely 
sell yourself to be His slave. — G. W. D., in Living Words. 

My own heart keeps saying, " Jesus, I'll go through with 
Thee." — Dr. Morrison. 

I resolve by the grace of God to give Him the best of all 
I have. — Rev. John Pennington. 

All should be willing not only to die but to live for Christ, 
and for Christ only. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

If your mind is set upon nothing but the will of God and 
the welfare of your neighbor, you will enjoy liberty within. 
— Thos. a Kempis. 

All in Christ, by the Holy Spirit, for the glory of God ; all 
else is nothing. — Adolphc Monod. 

The Lord Jesus, our never-defeated Leader, calls us to the 
supremest consecration and effort for the salvation of souls 
and the upbuilding of His kingdom. — Bishop Willard F. 
Mallalien. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 39 

Our lives may be and should be in God's will. — Dr. C. J. 
Fowler. 

My will is lost in God's will, and His will is always done. 
Praise the Lord. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

Settle it forever that you are to deal directly with the Holy 
Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your 
tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways 
that He does not deal with others. — G. W. D., in Living 
Words. 

We need a revival that will open the windows of heaven 
by bringing all God's tithes into his storehouse. A revival 
that will so fill the saints with love that they will rejoice in 
the opportunity to give their time and money and if needs 
be their very lives for their brethren and for the salvation 
of a lost world. — S. B. Shaw. 

It takes misrepresentation to test the consecration of a 
Christian.— S. A. P. 

The Lord Jesus has given His life for you. What have 
you given to Him, my child ? — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

If we want God's best, we must give Him our best. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

The entire consecration of a human life is always followed 
by wonders. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

God never impresses us to give up a Benjamin, but He 
gives us a Joseph, the corn of His kingdom, and Benjamin 
back again, or something better. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

God wants our whole body to be a living sacrifice for 
Him. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Consecration means to let God absolutely have His way 
with you.— Rev. G. D. Watson. 



40 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God just wants you, so that when He has you He has 
control of you and your talents. — Rev. Bailsman. 

You will find that every plan of your life and every pur- 
pose that has not been divinely planned, will have to perish. 
— Rev. M. W. Knap p. 

God Almighty, v/ith all His power, is wholly for thee; 
be thou wholly for God. — Murray. 

Your sanctification will last as long as you stay on the 
altar. — Rev. Aura Smith. 

We must be willing to climb the mountain with God, and 
offer up our Isaac. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Nothing that we lose for Christ is worth what we gain. — 
Charles Gallandt Trumbull. 

We must not only " commit our ways " unto God, but also 
the time and manner of them. — Rev. M. W . Knap p. 

No person is entirely consecrated until he is content to let 
God take care of his reputation. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

The more the Lord does for us, the more He should get 
out of our lives. — 5". A. P. 

Always put God in the beginning. — Way of Faith. 

Commend all to God, and then lie still in His bosom. — 
Francis De Sales. 

What peace and joy there would be in our lives, did we 
but yield ourselves to the purpose of our God. — Rcz: J. 
Wilbur Chapman. 

When you give yourselves to God, even to the death, it 
will not be long before you will come to life. — Rev. J. N. 
Short. 

Just in proportion as we link our wills with the will of 
God, there will be lasting outcome from our lives. — Henry 
Drummond. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 41 

The pleasures of life consist in living along the lines of 
God's will. — Henry Drummond. 

God can do anything with us if we will only let Him. — 
Selected. 

When God gets all there is of us, we will not keep back a 
part of the price. — S. A. P. 

Recognize in everything that all that you have belongs to 
Christ, because He redeemed you, because God gave you to 
Him, and also because you have yielded yourself to His 
majesty. Your time, your strength, your influence are all 
His. — Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

God wants our all, God wants every Christian at his or her 
best for Him.— 5. A. P. 

Open all the doors to the religion of Christ. It will make 
this world a paradise. It will sweeten the everyday trials of 
life, the little perplexities and annoyances, little sorrows and 
trials, little disappointments and mistakes. — Rev. J. M. Fra- 
denburg, D. D. 

Abandon yourself completely and forever to God, and just 
let Him sweep you out into abundant life. — Rev. C. J. 
Fowler. 

Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do ? What wilt Thou 
have me to be ? — Rev. W. S. Stephens. 

My Jesus, my king, my life, and my all, I again dedicate 
myself to Thee. — David Livingstone. 

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are 
buried in the will of God. — Faber. 

God's mercy and goodness to us should lead us to a life 
of entire consecration and devotion to Him. — Selected. 

Consecration is presenting one's self to God to be made 
holy. — John P. Elston. 



42 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



It means a lot to go with Christ, but it is safe. — Rev. 
Mary Storey. 

I never made much progress in the career of faith until 
I most solemnly resolved in the strength of the Lord Jehovah 
that I would do every duty, though I might die in the effort. 
From that hour my course was upward and onward. — 
Phoebe Palmer. 

If anything I have will advance the interest of that king- 
dom (Christ's kingdom), it shall be given or kept, as by 
giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him 
to whom I owe all my hopes both for time and eternity. 
May grace be given me to adhere to this. — David Living- 
stone. 

We should always give our best to God. — Dr. J. R. 
Miller. 

There can be no disappointment to me, for I have no 
desire but that God's will may be accomplished. — Dr. Pay- 
son. 

O, if I had a thousand lives, I'd give them all to Jesus 
Christ. — Colonel Brengle. 

We want to live as crucified men, so that it may be felt 
wherever we go that we live Christ's life, not our own. — 
Rev. G. A. Fox. 

My whole life is one service for God. — George Mullet: 

Let us get to planning to get the most out of our lives for 
God.— Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Whoever will attain in his work to a higher level of suc- 
cess, must walk on a higher level of sacrifice. — C. Booth 
Clibbom. 

Our one purpose should be to glorify God. — F. Brewer. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 43 

The King is calling for loyal subjects ; will you say yes to 
Him? — Rev. John Pennington. 

We must let God fill up our emptiness and empty our full- 
ness. This secret known, there is no more difficulty about 
the inward life. — Madam Guyon. 

Still polish and sharpen me, Master, 
Though painful the process may be ; 

And make me an instrument fitted 
To be used any moment by Thee. 

— Rev. G. W. Ridout. 

God wants what you are wasting. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

It is so sweet to see how God looks after those who give 
up all for Him. — Mrs. M. W. Knapp. 

What we do not consecrate to God we must part with, or 
lose our souls. — Selected. 

God just wants so that when He has you He has control 
of you and your talents. — Rev. Bausman. 

He who would know God must place himself with all his 
life's interests into His keeping. — The Silent Evangelist. 

God help us, each one, to live yielded lives, to withhold 
nothing from our Father, and to be true to Him who died 
for us. — Bradford Young People. 

Entire consecration is the base of all soul rest and victory. 
— Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Everybody who is fully consecrated has faith in God. — 
Rev. E. F. Walker. 

There comes a time when we must forfeit all, consecrate 
all, or be lost. God is leading us to the point of entire con- 
secration. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 



44 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is good to get all our affairs into God's hands, from 
beginning to end. — Christian Standard. 

One day I changed my little skiff for a full salvation ocean 
liner, and steamed far out into the deep. — Sister Cowan. 

We must surrender all and depend upon God for all. — A r . 
F. Akerman. 

It is our business to control our will and commit it to 
God's will. — Epworth Herald. 

It is God's plan that His children shall walk so softly 
before Him that every step will be ordered of the Lord. — 
Beatrice M. Finney. 

" How much it means for a young life to be consecrated 
to God ! " Yes, but it means more " not to be." — H. C. E. 

It pays always to seek only God's best. — Dr. G. P. Par- 
dington. 

God can do great things with our lives, if we but give 
them to Him in sincerity. He can make them useful and 
heroic. — Lindsay. 

The only w)ay that it is possible for any one of us to 
glorify God is to let Him have His way with us. — M. E. 
Howell. 

A surrendered life is to do and to be what God wills. — 
The Silent Evangelist. 

Be thoroughly willing that God should treat you in the 
manner that pleases Him. — Rev. T. J. Tigert, D. D. 

What have we that Christ can use? Are we willing to 
have Him use anything we have? — Northwestern Christian 
Advocate. 

God wants men and women to give Him their lives. — Rev. 
Morrison. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 45 

The whole man is to be God's exclusive property. — Rev. 
Chas. W. Dane. 

We must give up our lives to the will of God, whatever it 
may require. — /. R. Miller, D. D. 



CONSISTENCY. 

Religion is not a doctrine, but a life. — Rev. Geo. H. 
Trever, D. D. 

There is no selfishness in real Christianity. — Selected. 

You can never dwell in the secret place until you are 
ready to clean up and promise to keep out of the mire and 
clay of sin. — Rev. C. 0. Moulton. 

When the heart is holy the conversation will be holy also. 
— Way of Faith. 

The maturest Christian is always the humblest and most 
watchful. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

If the heart is right the conversation will be sweet, truth- 
ful, humble, heavenly, and holy. — Pentecostal Era. 

We must be true to God when we talk to others, or else 
we will be told, " Physician, heal thyself." — Selected. 

We want a religion that will live and shine in all business 
circles and in all social walks of life, as well as in church. — 
Rev. Hooper Crews, D. D. 

Too many professing Christians sing, " I'm the child of a 
King," and live a spiritually impoverished life. — Rev. G. W. 
Ridout. 

Carry religion into common life and your life will be 
rendered useful as well as noble. — John Baird, D. D. 



4.6 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Carry religious principles into everyday life. Principle 
elevates whatever it touches. — John Baird, D. D. 

Never find fault with a sermon you may hear, if you have 
not been praying earnestly during the week that your min- 
ister may be filled with the Holy Ghost. — Dr. R. IV. Dale. 

Let us practise Christianity in the little opportunities of 
every day. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The religion that pleases Christ must go into everything 
that we do. — Selected. 

The man who manifests the spirit of Christ sympathizes 
with those who need sympathy, visits those who need to be 
visited, and ministers to those who need help. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

To be a Christian and no one suspect it, is an impossibility. 
— Dr. Carradine. 

Christ pointed to His works as proof that the Father had 
sent Him. — Mrs. S. M. C. Musgrove. 

The world does not doubt Christianity as much as Chris- 
tians. — Rev. J. B. Ely. 

A good example, a consistent Christian life, is the crying 
need of a poor, dying, lost, perishing world. — John Vance. 



CONVERSION. 

A converted man leaves off every doubtful thing in life, 
and orders his whole life according to his conception of 
what would please God. — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

We must meet the conditions or we can never have the sal- 
vation that Christ died to purchase. — Rev. D. Rand Pierce. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 47 

Every converted person hungers after righteousness, longs 
for purity of heart, wants to be like Jesus. — Rev. H. B. 
Hosley. 

You can't be an heir until you first get to be a child. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson.- 

When we accept Christ as the way of salvation, our sins 
are cleansed, and we are made God's children. — Northwest- 
em Christian Advocate. 

The man who is converted hates every form of evil, and 
turns away therefrom. — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 

To an awakened sinner, this world becomes a wilderness 
in which he is no longer at home. And in conversion, he 
becomes a pilgrim seeking a country out of sight. — Rev. S. 
B. Shaw. 

To be converted is a wonderful change — being a trans- 
lation from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of God. 
And these kingdoms are not similar, but the very opposite 
of each other. The one is evil, the other righteous ; the one 
is from beneath, the other from above ; the one is the king- 
dom of darkness, the other the kingdom of light. — Old-Time 
Religion. 

A sinner finds himself relieved of his burden when he re- 
ceives Christ. — Rev. J. D. Marsh. 

Christ must be born within us, so that we know our sins 
are taken away. — Peter Bohler. 

Sonship comes through the new birth; we are born into 
God's family. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The finding of Christ means liberty, and every band be- 
comes as burnt flax. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

Salvation begins with a new birth. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



48 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God never gets into a human heart without making a stir 
in the emotional element of that soul. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

We begin our Christian lives by abandoning ourselves to 
Christ. — Robert E. Speer. 

God not only bestows an abundant pardon, but regenerates 
and adopts the pardoned sinner into the royal family of the 
redeemed. — Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr. 

Conversion restores us to our innocent child state. — Rev. 
Brooks. 

Conversion in a Scriptural sense is understood to include 
four things: forgiveness of all past transgressions, justifi- 
cation in the sight of God — through the atonement of 
Christ, regeneration or the new birth, and adoption into the 
family of God ; yet it seems to us the latter two are really 
but one, as he who is born of the Spirit, by virtue of that 
new birth, becomes a child of God — being made by birth, 
a partaker of the divine nature. — Old-Tune Religion. 

Conversion is a declaration of war against Satan and all 
his works. — Rev. W. S. Stephens. 

God converts our souls that He may fully sanctify us unto 
Himself. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

The converted man is a new creature. He lives a new 
life. He not only sees with new eyes and hears with new 
ears, he has new tastes, new appetites, new desires, new- 
aspirations, new thoughts, new affections, and is in very deed 
a new man in all that goes to make up true manhood. — 5. B. 
Shaw. 

The love we get in conversion rises to a high tide. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

When you get converted you get a new language. — Rev. 
John Robertson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 49 

It is the privilege of every person who accepts Christ as 
his Saviour to know that he is a child of God. — Rev. Chas. 
W. Dane. 

Regeneration gives us the liberty to go out as free men. 
Sanctification makes us free to serve God forever with a 
willing and an obedient heart. — O'Chafhn. 

Conversion rectifies the outward life. — Rev. Bausman. 

Justification reconciles us to God's law. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

You ask how a man can become suddenly converted. Just 
take the gift of God. — D. L. Moody. 

If a man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature ; and all 
things round about are also new. — Joseph Parker. 



CONVICTION. 

As soon as a sinner sees his lost condition, he loses his 
interest in the world. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Divine truth, which is the sword of the Spirit, always 
lays bare the human heart. — Rev. G. P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

For the natural soul to confess itself bankrupt before God, 
with no assets of merit, is the conviction of sin made by the 
Holy Spirit. — Martin Hilbish. 

When men see God's purity they see how far they are 
from God ; then cry out, " Woe is me, for I am undone." — 
Rev. F. A. Hillary. 

Saul could never shake off the conviction that possessed 
. his soul at the hour of Stephen's death. It led to his con- 
version. — Selected. 



5 o SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Before humanity can realize their moral and financial ob- 
ligation to God they must be awakened from their awful 
sleep, from their lost condition, from their blindness. They 
must realize their degradation. — Old-Time Religion. 

Oh, if there is anything that will give us a proper estimate 
of Jesus, it is to get a good view of ourselves under the Holy 
Ghost illumination. — Rev. Morrison. 

When a man gets to the point that he knows he is lost, 
then will Jesus help him, and not before. — Rev. Havell. 

When God's Holy Spirit talks to us, how our sins do 
appear! — Laura A. Jarvis. 

Godly sorrow for sin will destroy all love of, or desire for, 
anything that is unholy, and create utter hatred for every- 
thing that is impure or unclean. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

In order to get to God a man must have old-fashioned 
conviction. — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 

It is something grand when a soul comes to face God. — 
Mr. Tuskingham. 

The revelation of sin comes to every heart. — Selected. 

Effectual faith can only come through conviction. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

The Comforter is first a convicter. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

When a man feels he is lost, God is on his track. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Wherever the Holy Ghost is honored, you will see real 
genuine conviction. — Mrs. Cozvan. 

Nobody but God can show a man his own heart. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Divine conviction will bring you to a knowledge of faith. 
--Rev. M. L. Haney. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 5 1 

The work of the Holy Ghost is to make men conscious 
of sin, and we can find no more profitable employment than 
to have ourselves exercised to discern good from evil. — Se- 
lected. 

Conviction for sin is the first work of God's Spirit upon 
the heart. All knowledge of sin and all consciousness of 
guilt and danger and all true sense of spiritual need are 
included in conviction. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Old-time religion has its very foundation in a Scriptural 
view of the sinfulness of sin, and all thorough revivals have 
been characterized in their very beginnings by a stirring up 
of the people to see themselves justly condemned to eternal 
death. — Old-Time Religion. 

The measure of light and conviction given to hearts, at 
least generally speaking, depends very largely upon the 
faithfulness and devotion of the people of God. — Old-Time 
Religion. 



COURAGE. 

May God give us more men and women who can endure 
the darksome storm or the roaring tempest for His sake. — 
/. W. Beeson. 

He who despairs, wants love, wants faith ; for faith, hope, 
and love are three torches which blend together their light, 
nor does the one shine without the other. — Christian Wit- 
ness. 

God wants men and women these days who will dare go 
anywhere alone with Him. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Be courageous for your Lord. — Selected. 



52 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Let your heart be full of courage, and then say : " I shall 
succeed; not I, but the grace of God which is with me." — 
Francis De Sales. 

We should attempt great things for God. — M. D. Bab- 
cock, D. D. 

A holy man will not fear too much of circumstances or 
combinations. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The age is calling for men who believe in the impossible ; 
men who see the difficulties, but who see also the face of God 
and hear His call of " Forward ; " men who pray without 
ceasing and without fainting, seeing betimes visions of the 
opening heavens with their hosts of angelic helpers. — Edi- 
torial, Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

True it is now, as it has been and will ever be, that the 
man who is true and walks with God, has nothing to fear. — 
Rev. B. Carradine. 

With His sunshine filling your soul, discouragement has 
no chance to enter, and you still feel like fighting the good 
fight of faith, and leaving all results to God. — M. E. Howell. 

God wants us to have the courage to be decisive. — IV. H. 
Stromberg. 

Sin makes people faint. — John Pennington. 

The Word of God is full of blessed examples of divine 
courage. — W. H. Stembridge. 

What cared the martyrs for the lions? They were only 
messengers from the Father to help them from earth to 
heaven. — M. F. 

We shall prove derelict to our trust if we do not go for- 
ward. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

Lions do not bother Daniels nor Samsons, on their way 
to fulfil their missions. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 53 

Do not lose heart and hope in useless weeping over the 
closed doors of the past. Follow Him who has the keys. — 
Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

Trust not to your own strength, but with your hand in the 
hand of the risen Christ, go forth conquering and to conquer. 
— E. M. C. 

It is human to stand with the crowd ; it is divine to stand 
alone. — 5\ H. Bolton. 

We should not fear storm or earthquake if we remember 
that Christ is with us. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Walk boldly, walk confidently, for your kingship is of 
God, and the world must recognize your power. — Selected. 

The real fear of God in your heart will make you bold in 
the presence of men. — Colonel Brengle. 

Look over the height of every mountain of difficulty, to 
God. — Selected. 

Stand alongside of God and go through everything. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

The souls who love supremely are the fearless souls. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

To stand alone for God is to stand alone with God. — 
Christian Witness. 

Scripture is full of "fear nots." — Rev. George P. Par- 
dington, Ph. D. 

Gloom and Christianity have no place for each other. — 
5\ S. Times. 

There come in the experience of every child of God mo- 
ments when he is called to stand alone for the cause of truth 
and righteousness. — Rev. H. W. Westwood. 

God can take the most cowardly soul and transform it 
into the bravest. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



54 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Courage is knowing God. — Seed Series, No. i. 

We are in a hostile land, and the enemy is arrayed against 
all that is good, but our God has commanded us to be strong 
and of good courage. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

If we have on the gospel shoes we can tread on the lion 
and adder ; the young lion and the dragon we can trample 
under our feet. — C. Hanley. 

Good courage, which is surrendered to God, knows no 
surrender to the enemy. — Selected. 

Count upon God and move forward. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 

There is a place that you can get where God will put you 
out on picket duty and let you stand against the firearms of 
hell. Glory to God. — Rev. Crumpler. 

God is looking for men and women who will never count 
the cost of what is coming. — Rev. Compton. 



CULTURE. 

The Holy Ghost can use all the culture and finish of the 
schools with marvelous effect. — Rev. C. E. Chandler. 

The secret of Christian manhood is not self-culture, but* 
self-crucifixion and union with Christ. 

God leaves a trace of divine refinement on everything He 
touches. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



DEATH. 



Death can have no terror to the pure in heart and upright 
in life. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

The professor of religion who takes life easy, will gen- 
erally take death hard. — Selected. 

God wants us to die triumphant deaths. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, 
that no evil can happen to a good man either in life or after 
death. — Socrates, B. C. 470. 

A Christian should not desire death. — Selected. 

Take care of your life,, and the Lord will take care of your 
death.— ^ George Whitfield. 

Walk in the light of your God before the night of your 
death comes on. — S. A. P. 

If we die with sin in our hearts, hell is our doom. — Rev. 
E. A. Fergerson. 

If you would die well, you must live well. — Fanny 
Peverill. 

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. — William 
Penn. 

Every human soul wants God when he comes to die. — Rev. 
J. E. Marr. 

Death is the evening of life ; the coming of Christ is the 
morning of eternal day. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Death can never interrupt a faithful Christian life. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. 
— Toplady. 



56 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

To the child of God, death is the birthday of everlasting 
love.— Rev. S. A. W. Jewett, D. D. 

To die seems terrible, but to die in faith is glorious. — Rev. 
J. B. Foote. 

It can hardly be gain for us to die until it is Christ for 
us to live. — Bascum. 

The time is surely coming when every one must face alone 
the issues of life and eternity. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The only way to life is through the valley of the shadow 
of death.— B. T. Roberts. 

Living is life, dying is life. — Beecher. 



DEATH TO SELF. 

The last enemy in the believer to be destroyed is self. — 
Miss S. Thomas. 

God is able to make the cross of the Lord Jesus stand be- 
tween the soul and self-love. — E. G., in South African 
Pioneer. 

As long as there is any self in you, the world can not 
see Jesus Christ. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Our new life in Christ Jesus is always in proportion to our 
death. — Mrs. Minnie L. Draper. 

Christ's death is the pattern of our death, as well as the 
price of our life. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God helps the man who has got through with himself. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

The earnest cry of every Christian heart should be, Lord, 
save me from myself. — Silent Evangelist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 57 

I know that I am indeed dead unto sin, and alive unto 
God. The dying was dreadful, but the living is glorious. — 
Sister Morris {the noted hymn writer). 

If you would be filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered 
for service, yield up to be emptied of self. — Silent Evan- 
gelist. 

God wants to divorce you from self, so He can depend on 
you. — Rev. H. N. Brown. 

The death of self blots out a universe of wretchedness, and 
brings a heaven of joy. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Death to the lower self is the nearest gate and the quickest 
road to life. — Rev. Drummond. 

When you are crucified with Jesus, your life expands. — 
Selected. 

It is no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me. — 
Apostle Paul. 

Let us not rest until we can truly say in the Spirit, " I live, 
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 

I fear that the reason why a great many people are not 
kept except by spells in the power of eternal life, is because 
they have not taken their places upon the real cross of Jesus 
Christ, and died. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

Where God is all, self is nothing. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

When we leave ourselves, then we truly find God. — Rev. 
Joseph S. Dempster. 

God teach us utter destruction, eradication of carnality 
from the heart to sin, death to the " old man." — Rev. J. H. 
Norris. 

It is in the death of self that humility is perfected. — Rev. 
Andrew Murray. 



58 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Our lives make no music until self dies. — Rev. J. R. Mil- 
ler, D. D. 

We have no right to sing, " In the cross of Christ I glory," 
unless we are willing to add, " By whom the world is cru- 
cified unto me, and I unto the world." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



DEITY. 



The God who lived at Pentecost is just the same to-day. — 
C. E. H. 

How glad we are sometimes to have a God who is a con- 
suming fire, and from whose presence Satan, sin, and sick- 
ness flee away ! — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Let us trust Him who alone can search the heart, and save 
from self and sin. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God's character never changes. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

God is not like man ; His mercy endureth forever. — Se- 
lected. 

While God is our Father, we must remember that He is a 
just God, and will punish sin. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

God writes with a pen that never blots, and speaks with 
a tongue that never slips, and acts with a hand that never 
fails. — Chimes. 

God is the very essence of all goodness. — Rev. W. B. God- 
bey. 

How all-sufficient for all things, in all circumstances, in . 
all places, is God. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

God is always an encourager. He seeks always to give 
cheer and hope. — Dr. Miller. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 59 

God is God, and He lives forever; and He who hath per- 
fected our salvation is able to keep it up always. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 

The highest teaching of the New Testament concerning 
God is His Fatherhood. — Rev. George P. Partington, 
Ph. D. 

In everything that God brings to pass there seems to be 
at the beginning great slowness on His part, and after a long 
time His ways take on great swiftness, and the things are 
brought to pass in wonderful rapidity. — Dr. G. D. Watson. 

God has proven His power over the hearts of men. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

God is a person, and so natural that if we are in trouble 
we have only to know Him to alleviate us. All hell can't 
separate us from Him. — Rev. W. B. Ray. 

The world is all alive with God, and that one who would 
escape Him, has set himself an impossible task. — Dr. M. S. 
Terry. 

God is so wonderful that He will be to you beyond your 
hopes. — Mrs. Anna Downey. 

God is superior to all that He has ever made. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

God is the only one who loves to be begged. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

God is a being whose perfections are so absolute as to 
permit of no increase. — Rev. ' G. D. Watson. 

There is and can be nothing of the unexpected with the 
Almighty. He sees the end from the beginning. — Rev. B. 
Carratine. 

The God of the Bible still lives. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God is righteous in all His doings. — Rev. Henry Varley. 



60 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Man reads history backward, but God reads it forward. — 
Selected. 

The unseen God is " clearly seen," as Paul says, by " the 
things that are made." — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God's plan will not, can not, fail. — F. M. Lehman. 



DEPENDENCE ON GOD. 

Our very lives depend on God's will and word. — Christian 
Standard. 

Do nothing without God. — Selected. 

Not a fluttering bird which sings, nor an insect that floats 
in the air, nor the bursting buds in springtime, nor a star 
which shines in the sky, but is dependent on God's hands. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

No truth is more difficult to learn than that truth taught 
by the Saviour, "Without Me ye can do nothing." — Rev. 
C. IV. Ruth. 

Man is a failure without God, no matter where you put 
him. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

We are nothing, and feel it ; and we can do nothing with- 
out God ; hence we give Him all the praise of every good 
thought and action. — Bramwell. 

While you are in the church, sharing the privileges of its 
fellowship, let your dependence be on your Lord. — Rev. G. 
Campbell Morgan. 

God often strikes away our props to bring us down upon 
His mighty arms. What strength and peace it gives us to 
feel them underneath us. — Dr. Cuyler. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 6l 

Your times are in God's hands. He has assigned to you 
your place. — Frederick W. Farrar. 

Poor as we are, having nothing in ourselves, yet we have 
all things in Jesus Christ. — Bishop C. H. Fowler, D. D. 

When we confess our human insufficiency, then God can 
display His power in us. — Nettie Peabody. 



DEPRAVITY. 

Humanity without the restraining grace of God is as cor- 
rupt, as degraded, as the inhabitants of hell itself. — 5. B. 
Shaw. 

Depravity darkens the understanding, perverts the judg- 
ment, enchants the imagination, destroys the conscience, and 
ruins and destroys the minds and bodies of its victims — 
Old-Time Religion. 

Depravity in the heart is a disturbing element. It will 
kick against the clear present action of the truth. — Rev. 
John A. Wood. 

Depravity in the heart is the devil's ambassador. — Lou- 
enna Angel. 



DISCIPLINE. 

Trials and afflictions are not given for the purifying of 
saints from sin, but for their perfecting in holiness. In this, 
Christ is our example. — S. B. Shaw. 

The heavenly life on earth is tinctured all through with 
many kinds of sorrow. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



62 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Suffering is the greatest power on earth, and gives the 
soul the key to all hearts, and makes it a citizen of all ages. 

— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God's way of exalting His children is contrary to the flesh. 

— Rev.A.B. Eddy. 

The more Job was persecuted, the stronger he got. — Rev. 
M. W. Knap p. 

True disciples are disciplined people, people who have 
been broken by the power of the Holy Spirit, people who 
have ceased to expect anything from themselves, people who 
are always learning. — Mrs. K. Brodie. 

The mightiest tests that come in the Christian's life God 
will use to develop the most beautiful traits of character. — 
The Silent Evangelist. 

The Holy Ghost will teach us in ways innumerable. — M. 
E. Howell. 

God gives us all things that are necessary to sustain and 
perfect the Christian life. — /. R. Penny. 

So often God has a peculiar way of testing and trying His 
people! — S. A. P. 

God keeps a school for His children here on earth, and 
one of the best teachers is disappointment. — Rev. Theodore 
L. Cuylcr. 

God's trials nobly borne in obedience to His righteous 
will are the paths to victorious triumph. — 6". A. Brooke. 

If we only saw deep enough, the chastisement of God 
would be sweeter than the praises of men. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Unpolished hearts do not shine ; so untried Christians do 
not display the real luster of their true character. — Chris- 
tian Witness. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 63 

Don't think there is no trial in tears, nor that Jesus 
and tears are unknown to each other. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

God Almighty takes us into hard places, but we have a 
conquering Jesus. — Mrs. Osburne. 

Often a great blessing involves great suffering, but it 
means much to be comforted by God. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

You can't build characters without testing them. — Rev. 
H. C. Morrison. 

Let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth 
heavy woes upon us.— Fenelon. 

When the heart is heavy, and we suffer from depression 
or disappointment, how thankful we should be that we still 
have work and prayer left to comfort us. — Sunday-School 
Times. 

God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks, and 
they cut deep into our souls. Yet they are all of them 
mercy. — Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. 

If we must go to lions' dens and fiery furnaces in order 
to have greater revelations and a better acquaintance with 
God, then let them come, the sooner the better. — Christian 
Witness. > 

God wants to polish you by your not having the sympathy 
you'd like. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

If we go the way Jesus trod we will find that it will lead 
us through Gethsemane, through the judgment hall, and 
up to Calvary. — Dr. Morrison. 

The very things Satan throws in our path to check us, 
should be stepping stones to higher experiences. — Rev. E. 
A. Fergerson. 

Be more desirous of meeting God in your trouble than 
of getting out of it. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 



64 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

" God is love," and not one trial, not one refusal to give 
what we plead for, but springs from love. — Mrs. Mabette 
Anderson. 

Adversity brings out the graces and the beauties of the 
noblest Christian character. — Rev. T. L. Cuyler. 

Some things may come to us with rough wrappings, but 
there is gold inside. We all have our cares, our trials, our 
sorrows. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

It is our Maker's care that plants alike thorns and flowers 
in our path; to reject His flowers would be none the less 
unfilial than to repine at His thorns. — Francis Power Coffe. 

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever 
commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the 
pillar for His temple. — Phillips Brooks. 

God hath many sharp cutting instruments and rough 
files for polishing off His jewels, and those He especially 
esteems and means to make the most resplendent He hath 
oftenest His tools upon. — Archbishop Leighton. 

Can you not stand the tests of God that only come to you 
to make you strong in His word and work? — S. A. P. 

God links with you the people who need you to exercise 
to them the same gentleness, consideration, and helpfulness 
that the Master has shown to you. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Let us glorify God in the fires. Let us look over the 
heads of all our troubles to Him, and still believe that all 
things work together for good to them that love God. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

Trial affords us a fine opportunity to witness for Christ 
by our example. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Suffering endured for Christ's sake is the highest honor. 
— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 65 

After we have surrendered all to Christ, we have the refin- 
ing fires to go through. — Miss Hargrove. 

God never tempts us, but He does try us. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

I don't like the words " hardship " and " trial." It is a 
great joy to suffer anything for Christ, who went through 
so much for us. — Mrs. Christopherson. 

You never reach your best without the pruning knife. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the 
invisible land where tears shall come no more. — Rev. H. W. 
Beecher. 

When God leads into deep waters, it is that we may learn 
to cling to His hand. — Selected. 

The greater the peace, the greater the trials. — Selected. 

Sometimes God sends severe blasts of trial upon His chil- 
dren to develop their graces. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me from the earth, 
and I trust will make heaven the sweeter. — David Brainard. 

There is a dignity and sanctity and grace about suffering. 
It holds a chastening and purifying quality that makes a 
king or queen of the one who has it. — The Philistine. 

We shall pass through waters and fires, but the waters 
shall not overflow us nor shall the fire kindle upon us. — War 
Cry. 

The one to whom all things are apparently easy may have 
traveled the long road of endeavor under hard conditions, 
and has justly come to his reward. — Selected. 

If the blessed Saviour in His human nature learned 
lessons through suffering that He could not learn without, 
shall we hope or ask to escape? — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 
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66 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The great lesson that many of us have yet to learn is how 
to suffer to the glory of God. — Rev. S. Rice. 

This world is waiting to see what God can do for His 
saints in the furnace. — Rev. S. Rice. 

How often God is compelled to punish and chastise His 
children in order to teach them patience and obedience. It 
was when the children of Israel were in great distress they 
cried to God until their cry came up before Him, and 
God heard their groans, and delivered them. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

God is making us stronger and wiser by that which we 
are going through. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The faithful are always tried by fire. — Rev. IV. B. God- 
bey. 

Our hearts should always be softened by the severe things 
in God's providence. — Westminster Quarterly. 

Blessed Jesus, chisel me and model me as Thou wouldst 
have me. — Rev. Bradley 

As the lessons of life are learned and sins are forsaken, 
and higher ground is taken, one comes to be a truer and 
purer Christian. — Herald and Presbyter. 

God's private mark is always burnt into the spirit in a 
furnace. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

If God takes anything from us, it is that He may give 
us something a thousand times better. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

How many people lose their suffering and get no bless- 
ings out of their severest trials ! — Selected. 

Faithfulness to Christ will usually bring suffering of some 
kind. — Rev. G. P. Pardington 

Moses was slowly prepared for his life work. — Rev. G. 
P. Pardington. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 67 

Every soul has to climb its own Calvaries and Pisgahs, 
as well as spend a certain time in the valley of Baca and 
Gethsemane. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



DIVINE LOVE. 

The love of Jesus has a height without a top, a depth 
without a bottom, a length without an end, and a breadth 
without a limit. — Selected. 

If we will get to the core of love, the depth of love, 
the heart of love, we will suffer that others may have 
pleasure. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Beloved, you can not travel to the end of the love of 
Christ. That love has found you and me. — Dr. Levy. 

God's love will enable you to love God. — Rev. Dr. Troy. 

When the love of Christ comes into a timid believer how 
it changes him. — C. H. Spurgeon. 

The Bible word love means divine love. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

All that we have to make sure of is that we keep ourselves 
in the love of God. — Selected. 

The nearer the soul gets to God, the more its own imper- 
fections are revealed and the more wonderful God's love 
appears. — A 7 ". Ackerman. 

What is true of imperfect love is much more true of 
divine love, which alone is perfect. All true love comes 
from God. — N. Ackerman. 

The lost sheep teaches the love of the Son ; the lost Son 
teaches the love of the Father ; the lost coin teaches the love 
of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 



68 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Christ's love is the most ingenious as well as the strongest 
thing in the world. — Selected. 

Lord, help me not to keep my patience, but to keep Thy 
love. — Selected. 

God's time of love is always the dark hour of man's 
emergency. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The love of Jesus Christ has the same effect on the 
hearts of those who are of every rank in life. — Selected. 

As Jesus looked down the ages and saw us, He said, 
" Continue ye in my love ; " and God gave us His Son, as 
a manifestation of His wondrous love for us. — Mrs. Catlin. 

The love of God finds us ruined sinners, and leaves us 
glorified saints. — Christian Standard. 

God is love, and when we are full of God, we are full of 
love. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Divine love increases in us, the more we pour it out. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

From whatever angle the love of Christ is regarded, it is 
unspeakable in its length. — A. J. F. Behrcnds. 

Jesus loved us more than He loved His own life. — Dr. 
Daniel Steele. 

Love is the life and the glory of God. — Rev. Andrciv 
Murray. 

God loves the children who call Him "Abba, Father." — 
M. T. 

Every command of God is prompted by love, and is good. 
— Dr. Daniel Steele. 

How much is Christ's love restricting and blessing your 
life? — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The fire of God's love in our hearts will teach us more 
about God than all the other theologians in the world. — 
Christian Standard. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 69 



DIVINITY OF CHRIST. 

Jesus Christ was in this world before He came to stay. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

One of the proofs of the divinity of our Lord is that He 
saves His people from their sins. — Selected. 

The greatest proof of the divinity of Christ is to let Him 
save you. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

To worship anything but God weans the heart from God. 
But the worship of Christ brings the heart nearer to God. 
Christ, then, must be divine. — Etta E. Shaw. 



ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. 

No mistake will be made in the final judgment. God will 
gather the good to Himself, and the wicked will go into eter- 
nal punishment. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

The Bible clearly teaches that there is to be a day of wrath 
as surely as a day of reward. — Evangelist Scuddy. 

If we die with condemnation for sin on our hearts, we are 
lost. — Rev. Glascock. 

God has left the human will free to choose or refuse, and 
the blood of every lost sinner shall be upon his own head. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

A true fear of hell has sent many a soul to heaven. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



EXAMPLE. 



Do others take knowledge of you that you have " been 
with Jesus " ? — God's Revivalist. 

Nothing speaks so loudly for Christ as bad lives made 
good, ugly dispositions made beautiful, anger and envy and 
bitterness made sweet. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

When you have God's glory on the inside, it will come to 
the outside. — Rev. Bailsman. 

You must show the children of God and the world that 
you are God's children. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Good Christians give us visions of what we may attain. — 
Selected. 

More elegant, often, than words is the silent beauty of 
conduct and of Christly character. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuy- 
ler. 



FAILURE. 

Man's utter failure needs God. — Rev. IV. F. Nezveli 

Even the most successful grow sick and weary without 
the love of God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Failure is the fault of our own weakness, or of our own 
want of faith in God. — Selected. 

Jesus has made no provision for failures. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. ("Not in the sense of counting failure a necessity. — 

s.) 

Man has always failed when out of divine order and try- 
ing to do things his own way. — C. O. Moulton. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



FAITH. 



Faith is love on the battlefield. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 

Belief in God is the means of salvation, and real faith 
never goes away empty-handed. — Nettie Peabody. 

If we have faith in God we will yield to God. — Rev. E. F. 
Walker. 

A believing soul is lost to everything but the promises. — 
Chimes. 

We can have a faith that has no doubts in it. — Selected. 

A man at his wit's end is not at his faith's end. — Henry. 

The essence of faith is this, that it gives God His place 
and glory as God ; it allows Him free scope to work, relying 
on Him alone ; it lets God be God. — Murray. 

We must have the faith that cries, " It can be done, and 
shall be done," if we expect victory. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

If your life is dark, then walk by faith ; and God is pledged 
to keep you as safe as if you could understand everything. — 
Horace Bushnell. 

Our heavenly Father does love to honor and reward un- 
wavering and uncomplaining faith. — The Evangelist. 

To believe in the power of God is a mighty stimulus to 
the soul. — Selected. 

Faith becomes gigantic amid great difficulties. — Rev. G. 
D. Watson. 

According to the nature of a man's faith in God so is his 
religion. — Rev. Hugh Black. 

Our faith, both for ourselves and for others, should be 
persevering. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

The real fact is, God wants us to walk by faith rather than 
by sight. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



72 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We shall never know till we have passed the pearly portals 
of heaven what we have lost by letting unbelief share our 
quarters. — Rev. Albert E. Ashton. 

Some day we shall be ashamed of our little faith these 
pilgrim days. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Faith in God is a grand purifier of the heart. — C. H. 
Wetherbee. 

Abraham walked by faith while Lot walked by sight. — 
Selected. 

When faith in Christ is master of the soul, then eternal 
health courses through it, and it grows stronger in the vital- 
ity of God. — C. H. Wetherbee. 

Faith in temporal matters helps greatly to faith in spiritual 
things. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

In the darkest hour, Faith lifts her face to her Author and 
Finisher, and peacefully trusts when she can not see. — Rev. 
Coursey. 

O beloved, if your faith is small is it not because your 
love is so small ? — Etta E. Shaw. 

Try to see the hand of God in the present, and trust Him 
for the future. — Selected. 

We must go by faith and not by works. Forms and cere- 
monies will not do it. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

If we have faith, faith will be our comfort. — Selected. 

Every victory in life gives us more confidence in Christ. — 
Selected. 

The man that believes God just comes into partnership 
with God and shares His all-sufficiency. — Rev. A. B. Simp- 
son. 

A genuine living faith sings divine songs in the night. — 
Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 73 

Let us dare to draw upon our future fortune and honor 
God by taking from His fulness, " grace for grace." — Rev. 

A. B. Simpson. 

It is better to trust God than to seek great things from 
God. — H. Clay Trumbull. 

We should learn to believe God at any cost. — Rev. C. D. 
Sawtelle. 

Faith in God makes one feel like living a hundred years, 
to walk the earth with Him. — Selected. 

Where God has his way, Christian workers will not be sat- 
isfied with anything that does not satisfy God, and working 
in harmony with the Spirit and under His direction, they will 
have a faith that " laughs at impossibilities, and cries, It 
m»st be done." — Old-Time Religion. 

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving 
Christian. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Faith is the eye of the heart. — Rev. G. D. Watson, D. D. 

Faith must pray, faith must work, faith must watch the 
signals of the Spirit, and faith must be content to let God 
have His own way. And to Him, and not ourselves, be all 
the glory. — Dr. Cuyler. 

The faith that reaches out for things not seen is the very 
blossom of the heart. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Delays are tests of faith. — Rev. W . B. Godbey. 

Faith puts itself between Christ and circumstances. — F. 

B. Meyer. 

The real life of faith accepts everything as from God or 
permitted by Him. — Rev. J. A. McLaughlin. 

It is no use complaining about the weakness of your faith, 
until you use what you have, and then God will give you 
more. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



74 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Faith is better than fame or fortune. — The United Pres- 
byterian. 

Faith stands on God's word. — Way of Faith. 

True faith does not even have to see the cloud no bigger 
than a man's hand. — Ram's-Hom Brown. 

Faith has been called the " sixth sense." It is that by 
means of which we form a contract with the spiritual world. 
Read Paul's prayer, Eph. 1:17, 18. — Rev. G. P. Par- 
din gt on. 

Faith is the hand by which we receive everything from 
God. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

If we truly desire an increase of faith, we must consent 
to its testings and meet the issue when it comes. One grows 
strong by exercise. — C. M. Damon. • 

Christian faith is a good cathedral, with divinely pictured 
windows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

In the discharge of your religious duties, do not be gov- 
erned by feeling but by faith. — William McDonald. 

The firmest thing in this inferior world is a believing soul. 
— Robert Leighton. 

God is the source of power, Faith the hand that lays hold 
of power. — 7. Hudson Taylor. 

Faith is superior to sight. This is the richest quality of 
faith. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

If we will have a faith that will laugh at impossibilities, 
we must live close to God. — Clara Boyd. 

There is one place in the Bible where seven times in three 
verses God says, "I will." Shall we dare to doubt it? — 
Chas. N. Crittenden. 

God wants us to have large faith, and to expect great 
things. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 75 

When one becomes willing to accept God's revealed truth 
and promise of power without any outward proof, then God 
is ready to give him all the outward proof needed. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

When we believe with our whole heart, we will be less 
dismayed, and will question less closely, when God's dealings 
with us are puzzling. — Mrs. Mabbette Anderson. 

" Faith is taking God at His word, and asking no ques- 
tions." — Free Methodist. ' 

The intuitions of faith are more certain than the conclu- 
sions of logic. — Way of Faith. 

Jesus is an infinite lover. If His words are doubted, He 
can not reveal Himself. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The truest faith is often associated with the most limited 
knowledge. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God demands of us to believe. He made us so we could 
believe in Him. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

The faith that works while it prays, commonly conquers. 
For such faith creates such a condition that our heavenly 
Father can wisely hear us and help us. — Rev. Theodore L. 
Cuyler, D. D. 

Be diligent in the life of faith to do deeds of love. — E. B. 
Pusey. 

It is utterly impossible for faith to overdraw its account 
in God's bank. — C. H. Mcintosh. 

I like to read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, to stir up 
my soul and increase my faith. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

God would no more disappoint faith than He would deny 
Himself.— C. H. Mcintosh. 

Faith, like everything else, is imparted by the Lord Jesus. 
— Christian Missionary Alliance. 



76 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Unbelief says: "How can such things be?" It is full 
of " how's ; " but faith has but one answer to the ten thou- 
sand " how's," and that answer is God. — C. H. M. 

A personal God, a personal Christ, and a personal man, 
must lie at the root of all living faith. — Dr. Loba. 

Let us take our telescope of faith, and go to the heights of 
life, and see the beauties God has for us. — Rev. C. P. Mars- 
den. 

Earnestness and perseverance are born of faith. Faith 
knows no obstacle, and never backs out. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

True faith begins where our resources end. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Jesus Christ was always trying to challenge His disciples 
to a higher confidence in God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Our Christian character is the reflection of our faith. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Faith is strengthened as we exercise it. — Retta Shirm. 

Perfect faith in God's Word is to receive it just as if God 
had spoken it to you, face to face. — Rev. G. D. IVatson. 

We want the faith that will speak and act with Christ's 
authority, and in His name command the powers of darkness 
to depart. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Faith is heart-obedience to God. — Rev. W. W. Wood- 
ward. 

It is well to get people's faith to rest, not on our testimony, 
but on the Word of God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We need to believe regardless of appearances. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

Faith has a higher reckoning, which is better than all 
man's arithmetic. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Faith is the consummation of hope. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



77 



God is ever delighted with souls that dare to put Him to 
the test, and venture upon His boundless power and grace. 
— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Faith grows amid storms. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

You are to be perfect through faith ; God alone can help, 
we only trust. — Rev. T. C. Reade. 

Fasting feeds faith. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

When I come to the place where God wants me to be, God 
then believes me, and I believe Him, and we have faith to- 
gether. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

God gives His people hope in order to make them rich in 
faith.— S. A. P. 

If your will and faith hinge onto God, you can smile at 
impossibilities, and laugh when heaven and earth pass away. 
— The Vanguard. 

At seventy, love is more beautiful than at twenty. The 
body wears out by use, but faith grows stronger the more 
it does. — H. B. Longsdorf. 

Let God see that we have confidence in Him and believe 
Him when we can not trace Him. — Mrs. Lamson. 

Life is active; so is faith. — Rev. S. A. Walton. 

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of the promises 
and empties out their treasures into the soul. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Faith comes from knowing God's will. — Selected. 

Faith is a fine yield, for a firm will. — Selected. 

Faith never goes home with an empty basket. — Elijah 
Brown. 

The disposition to become discouraged is the sure test of 
our little faith. — Selected. 



78 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Faith requires a foundation. — /. W . C. Coxe, D. D. 

The right kind of humility is indeed very necessary ; but 
we must look entirely away from self to our Saviour, and 
thus realize what we may receive through His merits. — 
Carrie Judd Montgomery. 

We can stand the tests and trials of our faith while we 
drink of the water of life, for the trial of our faith is much 
more precious than gold. — S. A. P. 

We must have faith in order that God may trust us with 
the means that will overthrow the kingdom of darkness and 
lead out precious souls into the marvelous light of the chil- 
dren of God. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God gives our blessings, but we have to take them. — Rev. 
George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

Don't be of little faith ; trust God for your needs. — S. 
A. P. 

As no man is right with God unless he repents, so no man 
can possibly be right with God who does not believe the 
inspired record concerning His Son. — Rev. John M. Moore. 

Faith holds God. — Rev. B. Carradinc. 

It is the will of God that every one should believe on His 
Son, Jesus Christ.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God is rich, and I am working for Him. — D. L. Moody. 

The cure of feeble faith is alone to be found in the invig- 
oration of our whole spiritual life by intercourse with God. 
— Rev. Andrezv Murray. 

God can fill you with faith as well as He can with the 
Holy Ghost.— Rev. M. L. Hancy. 

Faith always acts easily and readily, when you get to it. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The living God is my partner. — George Midler. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 79 

Hold on to the promises of God, and keep your faith. — 
Rev. Aura Smith. 

To be an overcomer is to be a believer. — Selected. 

Real faith never asks how we are to be delivered from a 
threatened danger. — 5". 6\ Lesson Illustrator. 

Let us not fear, but trust Him who knows, and all will be 
well. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

After we meet the Lord in salvation, it is easy for us to 
trust Him for everything besides. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We have to have faith, for a divine conviction. God sends 
this to all persons at some time in their life. But so many 
will not receive Him in this way. — Selected. 

Faith is pure, let it be in what heart it may. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

We should accept our measure of faith that God offers to 
us all. — Selected. 

The assurance of faith brings perfect love and fullness of 
joy. Whether one suffers or does not suffer, the throne of 
grace is erected in the center of the soul. — Editor God's Re- 
vivalist. 

Instantly cast the devil away when he comes to you. If 
you will do this you will be astonished at your faith in a 
year. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Keep the sunshine of living faith in the heart. — Royal 
Path of Life. 

Whatsoever is done without faith, and not in the name of 
Christ, is not to His glory, and can not bring good to souls. 
— Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

God's Word is true, and we can trust Him, when condi- 
tions are met, regardless of feeling or manifestations. — 
Winnie A. Sims. 



80 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When you put your faith faculties in God's hands, He will 
fill you with the Holy Ghost. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

As love is the life of faith, so with the increase of love, 
faith increases. — Dr. Pusey. 

Jesus has made complete restoration for our faith facul- 
ties. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

O for the " simple faith " which will bring us with joy 
into the Master's presence and cause us to fly to do His bid- 
ding. — Selected. 

Strong faith is a clinging faith. — Selected. 

Resting faith is testing faith. — Selected. 

Triumphs of faith are first for ourselves, and then victory 
in behalf of others. — Dr. T. J. Oliver. 

We were born with a faith faculty. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

The Holy Ghost is a real faith builder. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

Faith is saying yes to God. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Faith and love will make a very little ability go a great 
way ; and without it, the largest gifts are vain. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

We are saved according to our faith, but rewarded ac- 
cording to our works. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The stronger our faith, the greater will be our happiness 
and safety. — Selected. 

Faith is man's free act toward God. Grace is God's free 
act toward men. — Annie K. Baily, M. D. 

The end of faith is possession. — Seed Series, No. I. 

Our life is found in " looking unto Jesus," not looking to 
our own faith. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The more a man does help others, the more faith he has 
that God will help him when he prays. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 8 1 

Faith stands on the promise in the past, love lives in the 
present, and hope stretches over the future. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Our Lord is true, and will reward every one who puts his 
trust in Him. — God's Revivalist. 

A spiritual faith is pre-eminently calculated to fashion 
great character. — Rev. W. L. Watkinson. 

The great need in the church of to-day is people with more 
faith. — Dr. S. A. Keen. 

Almost without exception, he who has put faith out of his 
heart has first put obedience out of his life. — Rev. Dan B. 
Brummitt. 

Let us remember that even faith itself can go no further 
than the Word of God. It must always be limited by " it 
is written," and then " all things " are possible to him that 
believeth. — Selected. 

Weak faith is querulous and capricious, letting go of 
Christ when clouds lower and. storms burst upon it. — Se- 
lected. 

The life of faith begins with God and ends with God. — 
Thomas C. Upham. 

Faith must have a strong and free domain. — Selected. 

If perfect love casts out all fear, so does perfect faith. — 
Selected. 

Faith is the channel through which God pours His power, 
and in which He reveals His glory. — Rev. F. W. Tray, 
D. D. 

Faith is saying Amen to God. — McDonald. 

When we live close to God, we have no doubts about His 
keeping power. 

The great army of faith subdued kingdoms. — Selected. 
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82 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We should do our part well and leave the rest with God. 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

To believe in God is to believe everything. — Victor Hugo. 

The soul will never have a right faith until it turns from 
man and hears God. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

Have you one anxious thought you do not bring to Jesus ? 
— D. L. Moody. 

The strongest faith, the noblest trust, however, is exer- 
cised when we walk by an inward conviction and not by 
sight or any sense perception. — Selected. 

When the heart is full of faith, the hands will be full of 
good works. — The Pentecostal Era. 

The power of faith is the omnipotence of God. — Selected. 

Have a faith that leaves the matter with God. — Dr. Dan- 
iel Steele. 

The faith that bears and suffers is greater than the faith 
that triumphs. — Robert Anderson. 

Faith is belief. — Carrie Judd Montgomery. 

The fullness of faith leads one to continuously wait on 
God, trusting Him, and Him alone. — God's Rcvkvlist. 

Everything in heaven is bought with faith. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

He who shows that true and real faith must manifest it 
outwardly. — C. C. Murray. 

Faith grows strong through exercise exactly as the mus- 
cles of the body do. — Mrs. May Mabbette Anderson. 

When we pray we should expect an answer, and should 
watch for it. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

We get salvation by a personal faith. — Selected. 

A Christian faith is a reliance on God for time and eter- 
nity. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 83 

Leave results with God, and be satisfied to wait for the 
largest reward till Jesus comes. — Rev. F. W. Cox. 

Faith is tried in the fire. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Faith would rather never have success in any undertaking 
than to obtain it by the smallest wrongdoing. — Abbie C. 
Morrow. 

Your eternal knowledge depends upon believing God. — 
Mrs. Dr. Bye. 

Your life will never rise to a higher plane of victory than 
that which you take through the prayer of faith. — Silent 
Evangelist. 

Abraham stands for the life of faith. He had to take 
everything by faith, not by sight. — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 

We ought to count nothing too hard for God. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 

Our expectations will be great as we base them on God's 
faithfulness. — Practical Portions. 

Faith always begins with creation. It believes in a God 
that can make things out of nothing. — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 

Don't try to hold God's hand, let Him hold yours. Let 
Him do the holding, and you do the trusting. — The Pente- 
costal Era. 

If we have gospel faith, that faith involves all the various 
Bible requirements. — Way of Faith. 

If you are the Lord's and walk with God, there comes a 
confidence into your heart. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Faith is the link that unites human feebleness to the divine 
strength and makes the impossible possible. — Rev. C. W. L. 
Christian. 



84 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Real faith and God-life are united to each other. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

Faith is a conductor of the divinity of God. — Selected. 

Real faith will always bring love to God and man. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

Simple faith in Jesus is the sweetest thing on earth. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

True faith in the heart rejects everything that God re- 
jects. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Faith is called " precious." — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Faith knows that what God withholds could never be a 
blessing. — Abbie C. Morrow. 

Real faith is a very choice article, and when two that have 
it work together, nothing in the will of God is impossible to 
them. — Louis F. Ml Mitchell. 

Faith takes in all the will of God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God looks for men who trust Him fully ; in them He will 
show His power. — Murray. 

Leave everything that concerns yourself with Christ. Do 
not look any longer at yourself, look at Christ. Let your- 
self alone. — Bishop J. H. Vincent. 

We should learn to trust Christ in all experiences. — Sc- 
lected. 

The elder of two children caught hold of her father and 
exclaimed to the younger: "Aha, I have got papa." But 
the father took the younger up in his arms, and she said, 
with a quiet tone of triumph : " Yes, but papa's got me. 
that's better." This gave the father new light, and he let 
Christ hold him. — Selected. 

Faith-filled and faithful always go together. Full of faith 
makes us faithful. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 85 

The Lord has taught me that it is by faith and not by joy 
tha| I must live. — Lady Maxwell. 

An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it 
be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good 
as ready money. — Mattheiv Henry. 

Faith never looks at circumstances nor surroundings, but 
keeps a steadfast gaze on Christ. — Mattie Perry. 

The faith that overcomes every obstacle is the faith that 
Christ rewards. — Rev. Geo. P. Pardington. 

The life of sense is the enemy faith has to conquer. — 
God's Revivalist 

Daniel believed in doing his duty, and leaving results with 
God. That kind of faith makes heroes out of cowards. — 
Russell H. Conwell. 

Faith has a limitless realm. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

No one finds it hard to believe when he is wholly given 
up to God. — Pentecostal Era. 

I would sooner walk in the dark and hold on to a promise 
of God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that 
ever dawned. — Spurge on. 

Great faith believes for others. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The victory that overcomes the world is not our feelings 
but our faith. — Nettie Peabody. 

God will never fail us when we step out in true faith to 
honor Him. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Faith grows amid storms. — Way of Faith. 

God honors the faith that honors Him. He assures it 
with His blessings. — Stevenson. 

God will take your faith faculties and link them unto 
Himself and His promises. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Don't be a little believer. — Rev. C. B. Ward. 



86 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Faith does not see things, but sees God, and gets things 
from Him. — The Silent Evangelist. 

If you will become a mighty believer in God, He will 
make you a mighty man of God. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Great faith leads to big love and bright hope. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

All the people who have gone up to God have gone by 
the way of faith. — Bishop C. H. Fowler. 

Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation. 
— Murray. 

Faith has a life to it, and is generated in the heart by 
hearing the word of God. — Dr. G. D. Watson. 

Desires that are from God are attended with faith, and 
those which are not from Him are without faith. — T. C. 
Upham. 



FAITH FOR OTHERS. 

George Muller prayed fifty years for two men. — Rev. 
Morrison. 

It is not that we have less confidence in the people, but 
rather that we need to have stronger hold on God for them. 
— Mary Leach. 

Our faith, both for ourselves and for others, should be 
persevering. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

Expect God to give you results, and He will do it. — Wit- 
her Fletcher Sheridan. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



FAITHFUL MINISTRY. 



God always has and always will own the faithful, loving 
preaching of His own Word. But, alas ! how few are the 
ministers who, like Paul, cease not to " warn every one 
night and day with tears." — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Truth is the arrow, but speech is the bow that sends it 
home. — Selected. 

Christ's Word is as true to-day and for our time as when 
He first declared that if He were lifted up He would draw 
all men unto Himself. — N. W. Advocate. 

All of God's shepherds that are of any help to the flock 
hold their position by divine authority, and have entered the 
fold by the blood of Christ. They are new creatures in 
Christ, and have no selfish or worldly motives. Their whole 
aim and ambition is the glory of God and the salvation of 
souls. — Old-Time Religion. 

Strong preachers have been Bible preachers. — Way of 
Faith. 

All the great sermons of the Bible were preached out of 
doors. — Christian Witness. 

What a luxury to preach under the anointing of the Spirit ! 
— Bishop Wilson. 

Paul was called for a double purpose ; to get sinners con- 
verted, and to get believers sanctified. — Rev. L. L. Pickett. 

Human nature is the same, and the gospel is the same, and 
when it is preached with much prayer, souls are saved. — i 
Rev. E. B. Randall, D. D. 

We can not present the Lord until we have seen the Lord. 
—IV. H. P. Faunce, D. D. 



88 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Let us give to men the vision of the message of the 
Saviour, and ever hide behind our Saviour and His cross. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God frequently sends special and startling messages to 
His ministers. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

The minister who does his duty will, of necessity, meet 
with opposition. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

Endeavor to sow the gospel seed deep, so that it can not 
be scratched up or rooted up. — Selected. 

The teacher who is so full of law as merely to thunder, 
or to cut and slash, is good for nothing. Or one who is 
so full of gospel as merely to simper and blubber of love, 
amounts to nothing. The law, as holy, just, and good, 
must be saturated with the gospel. The gospel, saturated 
with the law and righteousness of God, is presented in the 
true Spirit and harmony of love. A one-legged man can 
not walk. Christianity is the law secured and graduated 
into the mercy and love of God. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

Our Saviour's commission to His disciples is, " Go ye into 
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." No 
organization has any right to restrict the labors of any of its 
members contrary to their own individual convictions, pro- 
vided their convictions are in harmony with the Word of 
God. But personal tastes or preference should have no 
part in the life, and self-will should have no place in our 
hearts. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Whom God calls He qualifies. Whom He qualifies He 
sends. — God's Revivalist. 

Ours is a twofold ministry, including the calling of God's 
attention to men, and the calling of men's attention to God. 
Rev. C. J. Fowler. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 89 

We must not only preach the gospel to folks one day a 
week, but we must, by the inspiration of personal example 
and contact, teach them to live the gospel seven days in the 
week. — Rev. Ward W. Pickard. 

You can not tell what the fruit of a faithful preacher's 
effort may be by the result of a year. — N. W. Advocate. 

Wherever God sends a man and opens his mouth with His 
message, there is no failure. — Dr. Robinson. 

Only those who walk with God as Jesus did can He really 
trust to be the channels of His messages to souls around. — 
Rev. Penn Lewis. 

Too many Christian workers fail to trust in the Holy 
Ghost. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

There is no failure wherever the gospel is preached. — Dr. 
Robertson. 

The acknowledged shallowness of modern Christianity is, 
we believe, largely due to the fact that ministers of the gos- 
pel have so sadly failed to know and to preach the " terror 
of the Lord." See 2 Cor. 5:11. — Old-Time Religion. 

The truth must be taught in any case, and ought to be 
taught all the more faithfully because error is so prone to 
usurp its place. — Bishop J. M. Thornton. 

A consistent life and a holy example is the most potent 
part in every ministry. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

I love those most to-day who have been the most faithful 
to my soul, and given me the reproofs needed ; although at 
the time I did not always appreciate them. — Mary W. Chap- 
man. 

If we will just live right, God will give us a pulpit, even 
if it be only in the kitchen with the colored servant there. — 
Dr. Morrison. 



go SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God sometimes takes the most untutored people and uses 
them to bless millions of their fellow-men. — Rev. Byron J. 
Rees. 

When God calls, proves, anoints, and commissions a man, 
He begins to magnify him before the people, and to open 
doors for him. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Pleasing man will take the edge off the gospel sword for 
fear or for favor. — Chas. Prick ford. 

A Christian ministry is giving of life. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

Our Master has given us a trust and in the execution of 
that trust He gives us liberty. — Christian Missionary Al- 
liance. 

It is impossible to bring the world to Jesus, but we are to 
takes Jesus to the world. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Jesus was as faithful in uncovering wrong motives as in 
teaching right ones. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God wants and expects a faithful ministry, and has pro- 
vided for it. — Dr. Morrison. 

Prayer and preaching, alternate or simultaneous, are 
the right and left side of a living ministry. — W. Arnot. 

Only failure and confusion can come to that man who 
hopes to win souls by substituting for the sword that God 
has provided, an instrument of his own choosing, when 
the plain commission given him from above is : " Preach 
the Word ; be instant in season, out of season ; reprove, 
rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine." — S. B. 
Shaw. 

Real Bible preaching is always attractive, and always will 
be. — Christian Witness. 

A man that is called of God to preach is to teach sinners 
the way to God. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. QI 

What grandeur there is in real preaching ! — Selected. 

Personal purity is necessary to a correct knowledge of our 
work as ministers of Christ. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

The minister who does not preach the blood of Christ can 
not be heard to advantage of the soul. — Selected. 

Let us be " separated unto the gospel," that the blessed 
Lord may find in us greater efficiency and reliability in His 
service. — Rev. Raymond R. Burke. 

The world is reached through the preaching of Jesus, and 
Him crucified. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Men of God alive with the Holy Spirit, are the ones who 
should preach to needy people. — H. C. Wetherbee. 

It is the duty of God's people and ministers to so faith- 
fully declare the truth of God and so faithfully exemplify 
the grace of God and to so earnestly intercede with God, 
that those with whom they are brought in contact shall be 
compelled not only to know but to deeply feel the sinfulness 
and danger of rebellion against Him, having clear views 
of the teaching and requirements of the Word. — Old-Time 
Religion. 

We need holy courage and holy boldness to declare the 
whole counsel of God. — Selected. 

God has raised up the holiness people to rescue every item 
of the long-lost gospel and preach it to the world. — Rev. 
W. B. Godbey. 

Preachers who saturate their sermons with the Word of 
God never wear out. — Way of Faith. 

A true minister of the gospel is a steward of God's mys- 
teries. — C. E. 0. 

Prove God to your own soul ; then you can tell other peo- 
ple to launch out. — Nettie Peabody. 



92 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The man who preaches the Word will not be obliged 
to take it all back in later years. — The Morning Star. 

O how we do need to preach more Holy Ghost and fire 
in these awful times. — .J. S. Holcomb. 

It is easy for the preacher to preach when the people pray. 
— Selected, 

Holy boldness is needed to preach the gospel with power 
and authority. — Mr. Jeffry. 

Our Saviour declared, " The good shepherd giveth his 
life for the sheep." To enter the professed church of God 
as a pastor or an evangelist with a worldly motive is not 
only displeasing to God, but will bring an awful curse upon 
the one who thus makes merchandise of the gospel. — Old- 
Tim e Religion. 



FAITHFULNESS. 

Keep your eyes, your heart, from wandering. Be a man 
of God. — Bramwell. 

All we have on hand is to be good and faithful. God will 
give the increase. — C. J. Fowler. 

Nothing can hurt you if you maintain your integrity. God 
will see you through at all cost. — Rev. Seth C. Rccs. 

O that men would learn to live in the Spirit, and believ- 
ingly walk with God. — Rev. Thos. H. Nelson. 

We should be true to God and His kingdom in every 
trial.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God is trusting our faithfulness in the little things. — 
Rev. J. D. Williams. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 93 

Christ never despised little things. — Nashville Advocate. 

There is no limit to Christ's power in a wholly surren- 
dered, wholly faithful soul. — Rev. Alexander A. Boddy. 

If a man is true to God, he will win out every time. — 
Arthur F. Ingler. 

One who believes that a life of rest, and victory and 
power is attainable, will be sure to reach the desired goal, 
if faithful in his pursuit. — Rev. J '. IV. Merier. 

It is not success that God rewards, but always the faith- 
fulness of doing His will. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Faithful to-day, faithful to-morrow, will mean faithful 
unto death; and that will mean a crown of life. — Maltbie 
Davenport Babcock. 

How few are the shepherds that take heed to themselves 
and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made 
them overseers. Acts 2 : 28. — Old-Tune Religion. 

Faithfulness on our part will bring about definite results, 
to the glory of God. — L. B. McLaughlin. 

Neglect of the means of grace is a sure symptom of sin- 
sickness. — The Pentecostal Era. 

If we would receive God's blessings, we must be faithful. 
He does not trust His good things with the careless and in- 
different. — Christian Witness. 

Many of our doubts arise from neglected duty. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

Be faithful over a few things now, and you shall in due 
time be made ruler over many things, and enter into the joy 
of your Lord. — H. L. Hastings. 

God help us to make the best of ourselves and environ- 
ments, and of the grace of God in this life and the life to 
come. — Rev. J. W. Hughes. 



94 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

May we be faithful to our high calling in Christ Jesus! 

— M. A. Cole. 

God has always won His victories with the faithful few. — 
Selected. 

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His dis- 
ciples watched and prayed. — Trumbull. 

You may be so gifted that you can do almost anything; 
but all that you can do will lack perfection if you do not do 
it with all your heart and strength. — Mrs. Knapp. 

Never run away from God or your duty. — Selected. 

Ask God to help you in the little things of life. — S. A. P. 

God is always looking for men upon whom He can depend 
to take a firm stand and maintain it. — War Cry. 

God has little things to do as well as great ones, and your 
reward will be based on faithfulness, not on prominence. — 
Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

Be faithful to God, so you can be true to others. — Mrs. 
Lamson. 

The love of Christ will show itself in all the minute de- 
tails of our life. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We should be just and faithful and true to all, lest we 
hurt God. — Westminster Quarterly. 

Only he who is faithful in that which is least — that is, 
he who continually keeps faith with the minor duties of 
everyday life and has kept up to date with the small accounts 

— is ready for promotion. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 
Through this day you only will reach your to-morrow ; 

and to begin to-morrow right you must go out to-day hand- 
in-hand with God. — Rev. IsaiaJi Rcid. 

Faith and faithful are synonymous, and go together. One 
is the root, the other the fruit. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 95 

How often we hear it said : " I have prayed and prayed, 
and get no answers to my prayers." Well, God blesses faith- 
fulness. He wants you to quit sinning and go on praying. — 
6-. A. P. 

I want to be faithful to God whatever the sacrifice, until 
I hear the call, " Come home." — T. S. Johnson. 

God wants you to be faithful. — Rev. John Pennington. 

Remember you must die soon and stand before the great 
white throne in judgment. Be good and faithful. — S. L. 
Brengle, Lieut. -Col. Salvation Army. 

What a blessed thought that we may walk with God, and 
have the testimony that we please Him, as Enoch did of 
old! — N. J. Holmes. 

It means everything to be true to God these days, and to 
withstand all manner of evil in the world. — Charles Pick- 
ford. 



FANATICISM. 

When the devil sees that he can not hold back an earnest 
soul, he tries to push him ahead too far. — Selected. 

Fanaticism is a rank unteachableness. — Rev. Thos. K. 
Doty. 

Religious effort that is not prompted by divine love is 
dangerous, and either formal or fanatical. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Carnality always tends to extremes. — Selected. 

Fanaticism is generally the offspring of ignorance and 
spiritual pride. — Etta E. Shaw. 



g6 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



FEAR. 

It is fear that plays the most havoc with most disciples. — 
Floyd IV. Tompkins, D. D. 

Anxiety means lack of faith. — Selected. 

Fear and faith can not keep house together; when one 
enters, the other departs. — Rev. Daniel Steele, D. D. 

If we lived as God wants us to live, all fear would die out. 
— The Silent Evangelist. 

God is faithful, and we will trust and fear not. — Ira 
Woodward Back. 

Hope and fear are gospel motives, but only for children 
in the faith. — /. O. R. 



FELLOWSHIP. 

We have first to get into God's friendship, then into His 
fellowship.— 5". A. P. 

The fellowship of kindred spirits is sweet beyond expres- 
sion ; but not half so sweet as when we draw the curtain 
between us and all created things, and walk alone with 
Jesus. — Rev. A. A. Phelps. 

A truly faithful Christian can not choose his dearest 
friends or find his congenial fellowship among the worldly 
and ungodly. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Love puts us in fellowship with God the Father, Son, and 
Holy Ghost. — Rev. R. T. Conrsey. 

The soul wants kindred companionship. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 97 

The purest and sweetest joys known to mortals are those 
which spring from fellowship in unselfish work, with and 
for Christ. — Matthias S. Kaufman, D. D. 

Great good comes from association with those who are 
God's people. — Bishop W. F. Mallalieu. 

All the people in the world, black and white, rich and 
poor, educated and illiterate, who are doing the will of 
God, are my mother, my brother, my sister. — Henry Drum- 
mond. 

We are not justified in running away from our kindred, 
or even Christian associates, because they do not agree with 
us and are not congenial with us. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Of all the precious truths of Christianity, this is most 
rich : that God craves and has ever been craving, the re- 
covery of His creature, man, to loving confidence and fel- 
lowship with Him. — John Lindsey Withro. 

God never gets tired of the company of His followers. — 
C. G. 



FORGIVENESS. 

A Christianity that does not begin with the proclamation 
of forgiveness is impotent. — Dr. Alexander McLaren. 

Christ on board will calm the storm of guilt. — Rev. S. A. 
Morse, D. D. 

Think what pardon means to a world condemned. — Rev. 
Bud Robinson. 

If we refuse to forgive our worst enemy, we shall be like 
the servant who took his fellow-servant by the throat, say- 
ing, " Pay me what thou owest." — Etta E. Shaw. 
7 



98 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Lord's prayer commands us to forgive those who 
have trespassed against us. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

Forgiveness removes the liability of punishment. — Dr. 
Daniel Steele. 

When we forget and fail, there is One who " faileth not," 
and waits to uphold us, and restore us when we stumble. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Though we reject the divine way for our lives, God gives 
us a second chance. — Selected. 

God is always ready to give us another chance. — West- 
minster Quarterly. 

God can forgive anything, but He can not pass over a 
farthing in His book of accounts. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



FRUIT-BEARING. 

God wants fruit-bearing Christians loaded down with love, 
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek- 
ness, temperance ; against such there is no law. — Caroline 
Terle. 

If we abide in Christ and Christ in us, we will bear much 
fruit.— Rev. B. S. Taylor. 

God fertilizes the heart with humility, love, and power. 
O, how we will then yield fruits to God ! — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Jesus can bless the wilderness out of our lives and fill us 
with flowers of love. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

How few are faithful to all the light given and constantly 
diligent to add to their faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowl- 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 99 

edge, and to knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, 
patience, and to patience, godliness, and to godliness, broth- 
erly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity, in order 
that they may be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowl- 
edge of our Lord Jesus Christ. See 2 Peter 1 : 5-8. — Id- 
Time Religion. 

The profession of religion without the fruits of love and 
sympathy, is empty and barren. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

In our Christian lives, both fragrance and fruitfulness 
are necessary. — Rev. G. P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

Let us, like Joshua and Caleb, show the fruits as a token 
of the good land. Ours will be the fruit of the Spirit — 
love, peace, joy. And when they see this fruit in us, they 
will become desirous to obtain the same. — Mrs. Lamson. 

The years are hastening by, and we are all nearing home. 
What marks are we leaving along the way over which we 
are passing? — Mrs. E. E. Williams. 

The soil of the material heart will not produce the 
Christian graces. — Henry Wilson. 

Some Christians are bountiful fruit-bearers, and the rea- 
son is that they draw all their supplies of grace and all 
their inspiration of daily conduct from their deep-down heart 
union to Jesus. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 



GENTLENESS. 

The very cream of Christian holiness is to keep a heart 
full of tenderness, that slow, gentle, compassionate love 
which seeks to be just like Jesus. — Christian Standard. 



IOO SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and 
gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences. — /. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

Unfailing courtesy, kindness, tenderness, and considera- 
tion for others, are some of the greatest armaments to the 
character of the child of God. — /. C. Ryle. 

Praise God for this religion that makes me kind to every- 
body. — Clara Boyd. 

When God shines into our hearts, we become gentle and 
truthful and kind, instead of being cross and untruthful and 
cruel. — The South African Pioneer. 

There is a way of presenting truth without stabbing peo- 
ple. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

Gentleness is love in action. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 



GLORY. 



God gives grace to endure and glory to keep above the 
waves. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

Two suppers ; one of grace and one of glory. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Faith seeks the glory that "comes from God" — that only 
comes where God is all. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

The Lord wishes us to know " the riches of His glory " 
which is to be strengthened with might, by His Spirit, in 
the inner man. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

Truly it is a glorious thing to follow the Lamb ; it is the 
highway to glory. — Rutherford's Letters, A. D. 628. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



GODLINESS. 



This world needs godly men, who are filled with the 
Holy Ghost. — Selected. 

Godliness is Christ-likeness ; and when the spirit of Christ 
enters a man's heart and that man determines to live in 
accordance with Christ's teaching, then godliness is his. — 
Fred B. Smith. 

He who forgets himself and ministers most to others, is 
the most like God. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

The most beautiful thing this world ever saw is a man or 
woman humbly, holily, walking with God. — Rev. T. E. 
Sharp. 

God wants His children to look like Him and act like 
Him. — Rev. S. B. Shazv. 

It means much to have the mind of God.— Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Prove your godliness by your God-likeness. — Puspon. 

Sacrifice is the advertisement of godliness. Obedience is 
the goods delivered. — Selected. 



GODLY FEAR. 

Godly fear means one of the highest types of piety. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

If we would walk uprightly, honestly, soberly, and cir- 
cumspectly, we must walk in the fear of God. — W. Chaffin. 

If we do not fear God, we will never truly love Him. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 



102 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The love that fears and the fear that loves were the 
beautiful texture which was woven into all the life of 
Christ. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Godly fear gives us power to serve God in sincerity and 
in truth. — W . ChaMn. 

Godly fear makes us bold to defend the truth and to suffer, 
if need be, that God shall be glorified and souls born into the 
kingdom. — W. ChaMn. 

If we feared God more, we would fear less what men say 
or do. — Selected. 

If you fear God, you do not fear the opinions of man. — 
Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

The real fear of God in your heart will make it bold in 
the presence of man. — Colonel Brengle. 

The reason why Joseph of old did not fall, was that a God- 
fearing conscience kept guard of his heart-house. — Theo- 
dore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

You can't please the people ; see to it that you are pleas- 
ing God. — Rev. Morrison. 



GOSPEL. 



Jesus asks for our common selves and our common posses- 
sions, that through them He may spread His gospel in the 
earth. — Rev. Ernest Lee Thompson. 

The gospel gives a completeness of life and character 
outline of the Saviour, that is not to be found in the paintings 
of men. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

It is the design of the gospel of Christ to make the desert 
rejoice and blossom as the rose. — Bishop Hartcell 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. i03 

What the world needs to-day is men and women who live 
out the gospel. Our lives preach louder than our words. — 
Selected. 

The law gave us the type of the coming Christ, but the 
gospel gives us the Christ Himself. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The simplicity of the gospel is its greatest charm. — Rev. 
Chas. N. Crittenton. 

There is no discount on the gospel ; the trouble is that the 
gospel is too often not preached. — Mr. Sankey. 

The man who puts the gospel of Jesus into his life, is the 
only one who gets honey out of his life. — Selected. 

There is no new gospel. The kingdom of heaven abides, 
and it has a message to every century, and to all conditions 
of human life. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

The gospel is the simplest truth system in the universe. — 
Rev. M. L. Haney. 

There is a mighty " go " in the gospel as well as " come." 
— B. F. Jacobs. 

Thank God for a gospel that is able to preserve. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

The gospel is still the power of God unto salvation to every 
one that believeth. — Selected. 

Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can change men's hearts. — 
Selected. 

The gospel is a message from God to dying men. — Rev. 
F. C. Wilcox. 

The gospel can turn a man into what he ought to be. — 
Rev. Mark Guy Pearse. 

From age to age, from generation to generation, the 
gospel is written in the hearts and lives of men. — Samuel 
Ives Curtis. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



GRACE. 

I have got a grace that comes from heaven and leads 
to heaven. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

No man who wishes to serve Christ, will fail for lack of 
heavenly aid. — John Caird, D. D. 

Let us seek the grace of a cheerful heart, an even temper, 
sweetness, gentleness, and brightness of mind, as walking in 
His light and by His grace. — John Henry Newman. 

Nature must not mar the works of grace. — Rev. G. P. 
Pardington. 

Every step Christward is of grace, and grace is of God. — 
Dr. Daniel Steele. 

No state of grace gives any license to sin. — Rev. G. A. 
McLaughlin. 

Unless the grace of God is planted in the heart, we can not 
see the kingdom of God. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

The laws of grace have not changed with the lapse of the 
centuries. — Bishop J. M. Thoburn. 

There is boundless grace for us if we will accept it, to 
make us walk according to the standard ; the second person 
in the Trinity, the blessed Son of God, having shed His 
precious blood that we might be saved from our sins. — 
Sister Rees. 

When you and I are weak, Christ in a true sense owns 
the claim of our weakness, and comes to serve us with His 
love. — Phillips Brooks. 

God's method of helping is very simple. It is not done in 
a showy way, but quietly and humbly. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 05 

The more grace you have, the easier it is to live right. — 
Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

Grace is cheap at any price. Realizing this, the saints 
of God gladly welcome the afflictions which will by the 
working of the Holy Spirit increase their patience and so 
increase their experience and work out for them a " far 
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." — Old-Time 
Religion. 

Everything that comes through Christ must come as 
grace. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

When we come to the Lord with our burden, He just lifts 
up His child, burden and all, and bears him all the way 
home. — Charles A. Fox. 

There is nothing hard for omnipotent grace. — Rev. W. B. 
Godbey. 

There are tests to every experience of grace that we have ; 
tests to develop us and also to show the world what grace 
can do. — Christian Standard. 

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his 
own esteem. — Spurgeon. 

No man can take Jesus beyond his needs. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

No strugling soul, no afflicted Christian, no sorely-tried 
church, has ever gone down when once the Son of God has 
come to their relief. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Grace counts more than gifts in working for God. — 
Selected. 

Beloved, what is needed is not more talent, but more grace. 
— Selected. 

God literally pours His grace upon His people, and His 
resources are inexhaustible. — Rev. W. S. Black. 



106 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must live by the day and draw on our living inexhaust- 
ible Father in heaven, every morning for strength equal to 
the day. — Rev. Theodore L. Cnyler. 

God is leading us on from grace to grace. The possibili- 
ties are unlimited. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Grace is the ladder to glory, and on every step of it man 
must die to self ere he can reach its summit. — F. White- 
Held. 

Grace is the offspring of God. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee. 
— The Psalmist. 

The heavenly reservoirs know no shortage. — E. M. C. 

God is able to make grace meet all demands — E. M. C. 

The trial may be too hard for us, too hard for others, but 
God is equal to it. — Selected. 

The Lord, the King of saints, with His strong arm, will 
keep us from falling; for He knoweth how. — Rev. H. L. 
Powers. 

We may stand, for God is able to keep us forever. — Bram- 
well. 

It is ours to turn, it is God's to meet us with His almighty 
grace and pour out His Spirit upon us — without which all 
of our doing is all in vain. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The Lord has done so much for us because we needed 
so much. — S. A. P. 

The table of God is always set. What are the viands on 
the table? Forgiveness, love, mercy, peace, faith, meekness, 
and grace for all trials. — The Silent Evangelist. 

If any of you have not capital enough to do God's busi- 
ness, go to God and He will give you an abundance of grace 
to help in every time of need. — Rev. J. N. Short. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 107 

We struggle until we can struggle no longer, then we can 
receive the grace of Jesus. — Selected. 

God is a God of all grace under all circumstances. — Dr. 
Levy. 

God has made provision that where sin did once abound, 
grace shall much more abound. — Rev. John Pennington. 

God can as truly make His grace abound in times of trial 
as He caused Stephen's face to shine through the shower of 
stones. — Christian Witness. 

In these latter days I am seeing more and more what grace 
can do, and more and more the helplessness of humanity 
without God. — John Pennington. 

God allows us to work in partnership with Himself;' and 
our very lack of means makes us draw upon God for His 
resources ; and it is His pleasure to see us make a decree in 
our hearts of something for His glory, and then to supply 
us with the time and the strength and grace to do it. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

The river of life sweeps on, but the gold grains it held in 
solution are left behind, deposited in the holy heart. — John 
Baird, D. D. 

Show God that every ounce of grace that He gives you 
shall be used with all your soul, to bring glory to Christ and 
salvation to men. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

O, the infinite value of standing grace which we receive 
in sanctification. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

We may clothe the homeliest virtue in garments of grace. 
— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 



Io8 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



GRATITUDE. 

Shame on the man, shame on the woman, who can feel no 
gratitude to such a Saviour as we have. — Rev. Moore. 

Gratitude is the continuous echo which our hearts give to 
God's mercy. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Too often when our prayers are unanswered, we forget 
to give God thanks. — Selected. 

The world fairly bends as it goes through space under the 
goodness of the Lord ; and yet only one in ten, like the 
leper, returns to give thanks. — Rev. B. Carradinc. 

The cheeriest lives are not those that have the most, but 
those that appreciate the most. — Sunday School Times. 

Believers would be more faithful to the Lord if they would 
" consider how great things He hath done " for them. — 
Selected. 

As we go on from day to day, receiving a thousand and 
one blessings from God in the spiritual order, we forget very 
often to thank Him.— D. J. Safford, D. D. 

Do not most of us forget to thank God for reason, taking 
it too much as a matter of course? — M. P. Chambcrlaine. 



GROWTH. 



Walk in the light and wait on God, and we will go on from 
glory to glory. — Rev. Bevier. 

It needs lots of time with Jesus alone, to grow in grace. — 
Dr. Carradine. 

Not grow into grace but grow in it. — J. O. Peck. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. IO9 

It is the privilege and duty of the child of God to move 
upward and forward day by day. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

As time passes, the sinner will center in self and become 
more selfish, and a Christian's life will center in God and 
become more Christ-like. — Rev. Robert Smylie, D. D. 

Abraham was always reaching out to something beyond. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The Christian is but a learner in the school of Christ and 
must keep on learning more and more, not graduating in this 
world. — Dr. Mackay Smith. 

The building of a Christian character is not work for a 
day. — Isaac O. Rankin. 

As long as the Christian has in his soul the " forward 
look " he will grow in grace, and in knowledge, and in use- 
fulness. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Pentecostal experience is the most progressive thing 
in all the world. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

As we live in and are led by the Spirit through the Word, 
we shall grow in grace ; and Christ, our Hope, will become 
nearer and dearer to us. — Rev. F. E. Marsh. D. D. 

Christian character is developed by processes, and not by 
epochs alone. — Dr. Sharp. 

Christian life grows and thrives in the same sort of 
atmosphere. — Louis Albert Banks, D. D. 

There is a high school of learning in the school of the 
Holy Ghost. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

There is no standing still in the Christian life. — Selected. 

When we enter the Christian life, we have set ourselves 
down for eternal progression. — Rev. I. A. Neiss. 

To cease to grow in grace is to cease to live for God. — - 
Rev, S. B. Shaw. 



IIO SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

He that would grow in grace and in the knowledge of the 
truth must welcome all the discipline that comes by the 
trial of his faith, for we read : " Tribulation worketh 
patience ; and patience, experience ; and experience, hope ; 
and hope maketh not ashamed ; because the love of God is 
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is 
given unto us." Rom. 5 : 3-5. 

There must be a constant growth in grace and in the 
knowledge of God. We are to be fairer than the children 
of men. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

Spiritual advance always implies a faith journey and in- 
cludes certain contingencies of ifs. Not keeping the if's is 
failing to reach the goal. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

It is a law in human prayers that to keep what one has 
of anything there must be constant additions. To keep the 
grace one has he must get more. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

If we have Christ in our life, we shall grow from day to 
day. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

It is the water of life that strengthens and builds up the 
soul life.— S. A. P. 

The Christian who ceases to grow will cease to shine. — 
Rev. J. W. Hill. 

If you want to grow, bury yourself in the gospel. — Rev. 
George Bacon. 

None of us is the same man or the same woman to-day 
that we were yesterday. If not nearer Jesus, then farther 
off. If we are not climbing, we are drifting downward. — 
T. L. Cuyler. 

God's plan for each of His children is that from the hour 
he is born of the Spirit, he should continue to grow in 
grace and in the knowledge of the truth. — S. B. Shaw. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. Ill 

A man is converted in an instant, but he must grow by 
the year. — Christian Witness. 

All God's children desire the highest development. — John 
M. McGahie. 

When the heart is pure, it is easy to grow in grace. — 
Christian Witness. 

Not to go forward in religious experience, is to go back- 
ward. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

• We who are seeking to follow the Lord are continually 
recognizing that there is much land to be possessed. — Mrs. 
Catherine Broclie. 

Soul enlargement is the true end of all advancement. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The closer you walk with God, the greater your growth 
will be. — Rev. M. W. Knap p. 

We are made pure and holy, in order to grow easier and 
with less hindrances. — Christian Witness. 

God alone is great, and we approach true greatness 
only as we grow up into Him with a sincere and unalterable 
desire to be like Him. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

If we want our souls to grow, we must have sin cleansed 
away. — Christian Witness. 



GUIDANCE. 

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a 
jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feel- 
ings or for wasting your time. — G. W. D. in Loving Words. 

The power and success of any life is in being led wholly 
by the Spirit. — Selected. 



112 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Let us walk in the light and with the Lord. — Christian 
Missionary Alliance. 

It is a possibility for every child of God to be taught 
directly by the Spirit of God. — Dr. Torrey. 

Never begin a day without an interview with God in 
prayer and over your Bible ; then your steps will be ordered 
in safety. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Grasp the hand of God; He lifts us above the sickness 
and sorrows of this world. — Selected. 

Let us learn to thank God that we can not know the future, 
that we need not know it. Christ knows it, and it is better 
to go in the dark with Him and let Him lead, than to go 
alone in the light and choose our own path. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller. 

Christ will show us what our duty is if we ask Him to do 
so.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

We should learn to ask Christ every day to be led just for 
the day, and not worry about what we should do to-morrow. 
— Rev. J. R. Miller. 

Christ leads always in the right way, however steep it 
may be, or rough it may seem. — Westminster Quarterly. 

We can all have guidance in the right, by asking in 
prayer. — S. A. P. 

If we are always ready^ to do God's errands and work, He 
will keep us busy, and guide us. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Say yes, to every gentle whisper of God's Spirit. — /. IV. 
Bees on. 

If we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we shall be as 
sensitive to His leading as He speaks to us in His Word, 
as the sensitive plant is to the light when it is exposed to 
view. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D, 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 113 

When we fail to pray, we lose our way. — 5. A. P. 

God sees the end from the beginning. He plans for us 
the very best. — Free Methodist. 

Let us keep our eyes on Jesus. He is our Guide and if 
we are to be led by Him, we must look to Him for guidance. 

— /. N. Goddard. 

God is bringing everything in your life possible, that 
would be for His glory and your good. — Rev. John Penning- 
ton. 

Where God's finger points, there God's hand will make 
the way. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The Lord leads His trusting child in a safe path, away 
from fear, perplexity, doubt, and discouragement. — God's 
Revivalist. 

If you would know and keep the leadings of the Holy 
Spirit, promptly obey His softest whisper in your heart. — 
The Silent Evangelist. 

There is a faith in which every child of God is to walk, 
and in which alone God can accompany him. — Denham 
Smith. 

When you get your hopes anchored in God, you will 
become steady and lean only upon Him who alone is 
capable of guiding them. — S\ -A. P. 

God will not let us go through the dark places alone ; but 
He will go before and lead us. — /. N. Goddard. 

God is willing to lead on any man who will follow Him. 

— Rev. J. N. Short. 

I seek the will of the Spirit of God, through, or in con- 
nection with, the Word of God. — George Muller. 

Get in position, hearken, and you will hear God's voice. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 



114 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The work of the Holy Spirit in purifying the heart 
(see Acts 15 : 9) is but a preparation for his indwelling 
(see John 14: 17), that He may " guide " (lead by constant, 
continued progress) "into all truth" (See John 16: 13.) — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

If we act independently of the Spirit in little things, we 
shall look for Him in vain for great things. — George Bourn. 

The soul that the Holy Spirit is guiding will be* taught to 
expect difficulties, and to patiently plod on and overcome 
them.— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The true saint is constantly distrustful of self, and seeks 
God's presence and God's truth and God's leading in every- 
thing. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

When the Holy Ghost guides us, He will do it according 
to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. — Selected. 

God's leadings are above all others, and all others are 
made potent by His power. — Rev. M. W . Knapp. 

The Holy Spirit is the Christian's promised Guide. — 
Selected. 

All who are led by the Spirit will be " always abounding 
in the work of the Lord." — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

God has told us He will go before us, that we will not be 
safe without Him and that He will make us know His voice. 
Have you learned this secret? — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We must know God to be guided by Him. — Selected. 

If the soul is in earnest and intense, the Holy Spirit will 
lead that soul. — Lizzie Smith. 

We are to be careful that we hear the utterings of the 
Son of God. — Dr. Bresee. 

When you let God take you by the hand and let Him lead 
you, He will reveal things to you. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 15 

When you don't want to follow the leadings of the 
Spirit, you may know it is because inbred sin is still in 
the soul. — Rev. Scuddy. 

All we have to do, is to keep up with God. — Anna 
Abrams. 

God knows what is best for us ; that is enough. — Rev. 
Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Continuously and forever may the true worker hear from 
his Master's lips. — Matthias S. Kaufman, Ph. D. 

The Spirit and the . Word must be combined. — George 
Mutter. 

If we would enjoy to the full the captaincy of Christ, we 
must, in glad submission, surrender to His blessed control, 
care and keeping. — Rev. H. W. Westwood. 

The Lord may lead you around but He will lead you 
aright. — Selected. 

The soul that goes God's way never goes other than from 
better to best. Yet this is a difficult lesson to learn. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

No one need ever go alone. Jesus will go along if wanted. 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

God never alters a little circumstance in my life but it 
is to bless my soul. — Chimes. 

God guides His people. He shuts the doors and opens 
them. — Westminster Quarterly. 

The Good Shepherd sometimes leads His flock through 
dark valleys, but He always goes with them and then the 
sheep are not afraid. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Think prayerfully before deciding. You can only see a 
little way : Christ can see the whole way. He cares for you. 
Consult Him and He will guide you. — James M. Barrie. 



Il6 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Instead of anticipating God, we had better let Him lead 
in all things. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

It is the mission of the Comforter to lead me, step by 
step, through this program till Christ's ideal of my earthly 
life is fully realized. — Dr. Daniel Steele, D. D. 

When God is at the helm, we have nothing to fear. — Rev. 
Mary Storey. 

When a man will obey God, God never loses an oppor- 
tunity to reveal His will to that man. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

If we would have God with us, we must let God lead us. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Many get impatient and can not wait God's time, and so 
they spoil the divine plan for them. — Christian Witness. 

Divine guidance is only guaranteed to those who have 
entered their names on God's passenger list, accepting the 
fare provided through the precious blood of Jesus. — Madge 
Duff. 

God wants us to be certain of His will. — Selected. 

If you can let God work His will in your life, He will 
make a noble, useful man of you. — Stanley J. Moore. 

The prayer for divine guidance is based on need and 
promise. — Bishop H. W. Warren. 

God never asks us to go backward, so long as we follow 
His leading. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

What burdens and sorrows come to us, because we do not 
seek God's guidance in every step we take. — The Silent 
Evangelist. 

On every occasion of weariness we should retire to prayer, 
that we may give place to grace and light from God ; and 
then form our resolutions without being in any pain about 
what success they may have. — John Wesley. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 117 

Lord," let me have Thy Word by day and Thy Comforter 
by night. — Dr. Levy. 

The way of the Lord for us, is always the best. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

My only anxiety, moment by moment, is this ; am I now 
led by the Spirit of God ? — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

God has a way, and we are to find His way. — Mrs. Lam- 
son. 

The Spirit will guide us if we read God's Word. — Se- 
lected. 

If we accept God's way and do His will, He will always 
guide us and choose for us the best things. — Selected. 

The way to find out and fulfill God's purpose for our lives 
is always to do God's will. — Westminster Quarterly. 

When the ear is attuned to hear the voiceless messages 
of nature, it will hear the voice of nature's God. — Rev. A. 
C. Welch. 

Only those who are guided by the Holy Ghost are the sons 
of God. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

When the Spirit presses a text or a verse of song or some 
particular theme of thought on our attention, it is time to 
consider what it means. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

There is a place where you and I can get, where we will 
walk in Christ's steps. — Rev. Compton. 

When your life enters and gets centered into that within 
the veil, you will not wish to have any one guide you but 
your God.— S.A.P. 

When we are willing to be led by God, He will lead us 
and guide us ; then we will know Him. — S. A. P. 

God speaks to you through the Scriptures. — Selected. 

We can only win the guiding Spirit by prayer. — Selected. 



Il8 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Be much alone with God and His Word and wait before 
Him until He begins, at least, the revelation of His plan for 
your life. — Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

If we keep our life in God's hands and do always His will, 
He will bring us to the place He has in His plan for us. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

If people are willing to pay the price, God will lead them 
every step of the way until they reach the land of Beulah. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Blessing can only be found in planning and working in 
harmonv with God's will. — Selected. 



HEALING. 



Christ came to heal, as well as to save. — Selected. 

The fall of man touched the body as well as the soul. So 
redemption touches both. — Rev. A. E. Funk. 

Let us in our eagerness to be well and strong take in the 
truth of an indwelling God. — Margaret Bottomc. 

The incarnation of Christ means as much for our bodies 
as for our souls. — -Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Instead of Jesus pulling down the banner of healing, 
He sent His disciples out to teach the same. — Rev. Set4i C. 
Rees. 

Dr. Cullis's usual prayer over the sick was. " Ileal him, 
O Lord, and fill him with the Holy Ghost."— Rev. Win. C. 
Stevens. 

The God who healed in Hezekiah's time does heal the 
same to-day. — Mrs. Annie Rancy. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 119 

Trust yourself in the hands of the Great Physician ; His 
power is not limited, nor his arm shortened. His power will 
and can surely reach and cover your case. Amen. Halle- 
lujah! — David U. McQuitty. 

If the people of God lived where they all should, we 
would find that the healing- of the body is nearer to us than 
is commonly supposed. — Rev. C. J. Fowler. 

Christ carried the work of healing right along with His 
preaching. — Mrs. S. M. C. Musgrove. 

How often the salvation of the soul and the healing of 
the body are mentioned together in the Scriptures. — Frank 
Wothersheon. 



HEAVEN. 



We must be fitted for heaven, if we are going there. — 
Christian Witness. 

Heaven is described in the Bible as an everlasting mar- 
riage feast. — Rev. W. B. Godbey, A. M. 

The price of heaven is the giving up of sin. — Abbott. 

Heaven is the home-land of the Christian. — Rev. Dan B. 
Brummitt. 

Heaven will be glorious after the conflicts of life are 
over. — Christian Standard. 

We must be ridded of sin and robed in righteousness to be 
ready for heaven, and only Jesus Christ by His infinite love 
and grace can do this for us. — Rev. Hugh Hay. 

Heaven requires a certain fitness on our part. It is where 
God dwells. — Clara Eastman Smith. 



120 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

O heart, do you know of the homesickness for heaven ? — 
Rev. John Robertson. 

God knows how to teach us much of heaven here by an 
actual experience which He grants us. — Leia Owen Strat- 
ton. 

When I move out of this world, I will go to a mansion 
above. — Mr. D. Hill. 

We do not need to die to know what heaven is, the heaven 
of being whiter than snow, the heaven of perfect love. — Rev. 
Daniel Steele. 

Perfect rest, in perfect work; that surely is the rest of 
the blessed, till the final consummation of all things. — C. 
Kingsley. 

Heaven is a holy place. " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord 
of hosts," is the chorus sung by the angels. — Rev. Chas. U. 
Dane. 

God made heaven for the blood-washed, and must there- 
fore want them to possess it. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Christ went away from this world that He might pre- 
pare a better one for all His children. — Matthias S. Kaitff- 
man. 

The way to heaven is to turn to the right, and go straight 
ahead. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. — Se- 
lected. 

Man's universal longing for heaven is proof of its ex- 
istence. — Thos. H. Nelson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



HELL. 



We ought to praise God for a thousand years for saving 
us from the awful and eternal torment of hell. — Rev. E. A. 
Fergerson. 

No man ever seeks heaven very anxiously till he believes 
in hell. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

The Holy Spirit reveals the horrors of hell as well as the 
glories of heaven. — Selected. 

Unless our souls are warmed by the fires of heaven, we 
must sooner or later suffer the pangs of the fires of hell. — 
S. B. Shaw. 



HOLINESS. 

The pass for entering heaven is holiness. — Alfred Higgs. 

You get New Jerusalem fire, and the cabinet and con- 
ference will worry over you for several days. — Dr. Fowler. 

One reason why holiness makes the highest grade of saint- 
hood is because it forces one to the " level best " all the time. 
■ — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Whatever we miss, we must not miss holiness ; whatever 
we lose, we must not lose holiness. — Christian Witness. 

To be cleansed from all inbred sin, we mean that a person 
is so changed as to have no tendency or bent toward sin- 
ning. — -Rev. Daniel Steele. 

Holiness and I are old lovers ; we have had no friction 
for twenty years. — Rev. D. F. Brooks. 



122 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Take time to be holy. — Selected. 

Go ye in and possess all the land of Canaan. — Rev. May 
Anderson Hawkins. 

The spirit of gloom keeps us out of Canaan. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

God needs holy men and women in His sight, and He is 
able to make them holy. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Pentecost was not for the disciples alone, but for as many 
as the Lord our God shall call. — Rev. E. L. Hyde. 

A holy life is always a phenomenon. The world knoweth 
it not. — Drummond. 

Entirely sanctified Christians adorn all the doctrine of 
God our Saviour as a natural consequence. — Christian 
Witness. 

The dressing room is on this side of the river ; we must 
don our white robes of purity here, and go up to the palace 
of God washed in the blood of the Lamb. — Rev. J. W. Hill. 

The master purpose of God is to make men holy ; to 
purify the heart and bring men into harmony and fellowship 
with Himself.— Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr. 

Holiness is God's furnishing for His people. — Rev. G. A. 
McLaughlin. 

The holy life is one that is risen with Christ. — Rev. J. 
Wilbur Chapman. 

Bible holiness is just what everybody needs to fit them 
for life and death. — Selected. 

Holiness is not something that a man is or does, but it is 
God in him. — Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

O, it is not optional whether we shall go with God and 
possess the land He commands. It is a fearful thing to dis- 
obey. — Mrs. Lamson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 123 

The command to rejoice when we are persecuted, and all 
manner of evil is said against us falsely, is just as binding 
as any command of God's Word ; but it takes holiness of 
heart and life to keep this requirement. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Bible holiness will make us dead to our property ; it puts 
it on God's altar. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

The pronouns " my " and " me " have a high place in the 
experience of faith and deeper Christian life. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

We need as a movement, more of the love of God. — Pente- 
costal Era. 

When you are saved all right, there will be nothing in 
your heart responsive to Satan's temptation when presented. 

— Dr. Godbey. 

A holy life has its influence through example. — Nettie 
Peabody. 

Holiness does not exempt from temptation, but, thank 
God, it does give victory over it. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

True holiness makes one keen-eyed to discover sin and 
evil of every form. — Silent Evangelist. 

Don't say you can't live holiness. God made you to live 
that way. — Christian Witness. 

Holiness means to be clean on the inside. — Rev. C. W. 
Ruth. 

The will of God is that man should obey God and be holy. 

— Barnes. 

Sometimes as we advance in the spiritual life, we are 
taken by surprise at finding how much more deeply heav- 
enly principles were sunk into us than we had supposed. 
and how almost intuitively we had put ourselves on God's 
side. — F. W. Fabcr. 



124 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

A holy soul will make two uses of its liberties ; it will 
employ time and occasion for spiritual advancement, and 
will improve opportunity to help the souls of others. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

There is an affection for God that the Holy Ghost can 
plant in our hearts, and He can cleanse it so that our souls 
will be passionately, warmly, continually attached to our 
Lord and our God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The highway of holiness is along the commonest road 
of life, along your very way. In wind and rain, no matter 
how it beats, it is only going hand-in-hand with God. — 
Mark Guy Pcarse. 

Holiness people should be as wise in their generation as 
the children of light. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

We started the spiritual life by leaving off our actual 
sins ; later we got rid of the old man. — Dr. Carradinc. 

God makes provision for a holy life, by making it possible 
to have a holy heart. — Dr. C. J. -Fowler. 

No man can advance in the truth without getting right, 
and when a man gets rightly harmonized with the will of 
God, he will be holy. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

Take holiness out of the Scriptures and you have nothing 
worthy of a holy God remaining. — Christian Witness. 

Holiness is the power by which we discover the deep 
things of God. — Rev. H. N. Brown. 

Holiness harmonizes the will with God's will, and so gets 
the man in line with God. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

In the hearts of those who have been clearly and thor- 
oughly converted and who walk in the light of God, there 
soon comes a conscious hunger for deliverance from every- 
thing that is contrary to the will of God, and for more com- 



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plete and increased conformity to the divine nature. — S. B. 
Shaw. 

An honest purpose to be right is a good start toward 
heart holiness. — Christian Witness. 

God wants to take all the hindrances out of your heart, 
that you may be an efficient soldier. — W. B. Godbey. 

A holy life is profitable because God is in the center of it. 
Rev. E: E. Gilbert. 

The great reason why we should be holy is that we may 
glorify God. — Selected. 

Pray for a clean heart. Get that, and it will be a " regu- 
lator " for your outward conduct. — Rev. C. E. Cornell 

Holiness is automatic; it will go itself in any place, and 
adapt itself to any time or circumstance, and will flourish 
in any climate. — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 

Christian, if before God you have a pure heart and clean 
hands, trust Him with every opposing force, claim the 
grace that is more than sufficient, and you will be more than 
conqueror through Christ. — God's Revivalist. 

The way to get a pure heart is to get the impurity out. — ■ 
Rev. W. H. Hoople. 

Keep on living a holy life in spite of all that may be 
around you. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Every Christian has heart holiness, or wants it. — Chris- 
tian Witness. 

I have been delivered from all desire of applause. — Rev. 
J. S. Inskip. 

Purity demands a passive state, and an active manifes- 
tation. — Bishop Newman. 

It is glorious to live after one is dead to self and sin. — 
Jennie Fowler Willing. 



126 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

What is it to be pure in heart ? It is the separation from 
the human heart of everything that is unclean, of every- 
thing that is evil, and bringing the entire heart and nature 
under the complete control of divine grace. — Rev. R. F. 
Coursey. 

The real secret of the divine life is living moment by mo- 
ment with Christ. — Phoebe Palmer. 

We must be purified, to remain justified. — Rev. B. Carra- 
dine. 

A heart that has been purified by the precious blood of 
Christ sees God in every experience that comes to him in 
this life. — Rev. R. T. Coursey. 

God will make you more than conqueror if you will give 
Him a chance, but heart purity is the secret. — Mr. ChaMn. 

Do you want to know how to get a clean heart? First, 
desire it ; second, desire it ; third, desire it ; fourth, desire it. 
If you desire it, you will get it. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

People do not object to purity in anything but religion. — 
Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

God is looking your way with an uttermost salvation. — 
G. W. R. 

God is searching for hearts that want purity. — Rev. H. C. 
Morrison. 

No man can love God with all His heart until he dies out 
to the love of self and the world. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Every person who meets the divinely revealed conditions 
always has the consciousness that his heart is circumcised. 
— Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 

If we fail to love God with all our hearts, and our neigh- 
bor as ourself, God says to us as He did to the church at 
Ephesus, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 127 

hast left thy first love. Remember, therefore, from whence 
thou art fallen ; and repent, and do the first works ; or else 
I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candle- 
stick out of his place, except thou repent." — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

If Satan can make a perfect sinner, God can make a per- 
fect Christian. — Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

It is the glory of God that He has a holy people. — 
Christian Witness. 

God first takes us out of the mire of sin; then he takes 
the mire out of us. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The holiest men and women of God keep covered with the 
cleansing blood of Jesus. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Holiness and perfect love should be preached in the spirit 
of holiness and perfect love. — Rev. John A. Wood. 

To love God Himself, to commune with Him, to take His 
Word to ourselves personally, to obey Him with supreme 
personal loyalty, is our only true holiness and service. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Christ came to destroy the works of the devil ; that is, 
to atone for our sins, and to eradicate the sin principle from 
our hearts. — Rev. D. B. Strouse. 

The things essential to the work of the church : the Holy 
Bible, the Holy Ghost, and the holy man. — Rev. W. N. 
Gloon. 

It is impossible for us to be perfect in the sight of the 
world, but we may be in the sight of God. — God's Revivalist. 

When we meet the conditions, God reveals Himself to us, 
and makes us free indeed. — Rev. C. J. Foivler. 

We can get rid of sin by walking in the light, and having 
Jesus' blood applied. — Rev. Ruth. 



128 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

One of the greatest helps to a holy life is to give God 
the early morning hour for prayer and study of God's 
Word. — Rev. Henry Wilson, D. D. 

Being filled with the Spirit, the Lord will give us greater 
power to resist temptation and to live to the glory of God. — 
Rev. D. B. Strouse. 

Just let a person get the Holy Ghost, and He is the all- 
sufficiency for the supplying of our every need. — Rev. J. A. 
Kring. 

When we come to be sanctified, God takes out that which 
hinders the progress of that which He has implanted in the 
soul. — Rev. John Pennington. 

Our heads will not be perfect in wisdom in this life, but 
our hearts may be perfect in love. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

God will give the purifying baptism of the Holy Spirit 
to His children, if they will, in faith, ask for it. — Rev. John 
Paul. 

We will love God above all things if the Holy Spirit is in 
our hearts. — V. Chaftin. 

Holiness is only sustained by the Holy Ghost. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

You can not be sanctified if you keep anything back from 
God. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

The purified heart has a peace and rest, and a power and 
joy in working for Christ, which the unsanctified can not 
have. — Rev. Helm. 

Your life ought to be on such a plane of purity and holi- 
ness that men can not despise you. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Holiness of heart is an absolute necessity, in order to get 
the most out of the present life and of that which is to 
come. — Rev. Charles U. Dane. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 129 

The truly sanctified Christian is always a source of help to 
all with whom he comes in contact, who will be helped. — 
Rev. Chas. W. Dane. 

If you take your stand fully for God, and stand by your 
facts, you will establish your hearts in holiness. — Rev. J. A. 
Short. 

Holiness is not a rapturous triumph away up somewhere 
in vague heights of glory. It is just a poor heart that 
makes room for Jesus. — Mark Guy Pearse. 

The soul is made pure through the blood of Jesus. — Rev. 
Chas. W. Dane. 

He only aspires to the heights of holiness who walks in 
the depths of humility. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

No spirit touched with the love of God is contented with 
any hope lower than a perfect love. — Dr. Pope. 

No man can know perfect peace with himself, his neigh- 
bor, or his God, until he is cleansed from all sin. — Rev. E. 
F. Walker. 

If a man is filled with holiness, he is filled with all the 
fulness of God. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Holiness is the best thing this world has. — Rev. E. A. 
Fergerson. 

The beauty of holiness is the beauty of purity. — Christian 
Witness. 

Holiness beautifies the whole being. It makes the intellect 
beautiful. — New York Christian Advocate. 

When our whole being is filled with light, we are filled 
with His holiness. — Selected. 

It is a reasonable thing to go to God for cleansing from 
sin. — Rev. George P. Pardington, D. D. 

Holiness is religion made easy. — Rev. Bailsman. 
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130 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Christ did all, but no more than was necessary for man's 
salvation. He died to make us pure in this life, and for asso- 
ciates for heaven and angels — to make us holy. — Rev. D. 
B. Stronse. 

God has a remedy for the deepest sin. He can make you 
clean. — Bishop Joyce. 

James and John had ambitions, but they were all con- 
sumed by Pentecostal fires. — Selected. 

Thomas was an awful doubter, but we do not hear of his 
doubts after Pentecost. — Selected. 

The revelation of a holy God demanding holiness in us, 
is the keynote of the Bible. — Dr. J. W. Bashford. 

You don't have to die in order to be cleansed ; otherwise 
death is superior to the blood of Christ. — Bishop Joyce. 

Christian perfection is expressed in two words, " Perfect 
love." — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Every child of God is called to be holy. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

The land values in Canaan increase in value, the nearer 
one gets to the walls of the eternal city. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Bible standard is purity of heart and life. — Rev. /). 
B. Strouse. 

It is providing you walk in the light that the blood of 
Christ cleanseth from all sin. — Thos. D. McClcary. 

God moves on a track; it is the track of perfect holiness. 
Dr. A. T. Pier son. 

Scriptural conversion is a long step in the direction of 
entire sanctification. — Rev. H. B. Hoslcy. 

Purity of heart can be found alone by faith in the 
cleansing power of Jesus' blood. But lie who would rest 
satisfied with purity without maturity is like one who would 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 3 I 

be satisfied to be well, though dwarfed in body and mind. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Pentecostal grace will stir and arouse and inspire and fill 
you with zeal for God and souls. — Selected. 

A holy life can be lived in no other way than by faith. — 
N. K. Melton. 

No kind of living is so full of prophecy for coming years 
as a holy life. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

There must be death unto sin before there is life unto 
holiness. We must consent to be dead indeed unto sin, before 
we can have the fulness of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. L. E. 
Nice. 

Sin can be forgiven, and the stain washed out of the heart, 
and the tortured conscience find rest in the peace of God. — 
Methodist Recorder. 

The man who walks in the light is the man that the blood 
of Jesus cleanses from all sin. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

If you give God an entire consecration, God will give you 
an entire sanctification. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

The soul shines out brightest through a crucified flesh. — 
Dr. Daniel Steele. 

God needs holy people down in this world where there is 
so much sin. — Rev. J. D. Kelsey. 

Look to the cleanser ; He will look to the cleansing. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

There is an emptying in order to be filled. Be filled with 
the Spirit. — Rev. C. J. Fowler. 

The apostle Paul does not say he kept the body of sin 
under, but his own body. There is a great difference be- 
tween the " body of sin " created by the devil, and the 
human body made by the Almighty. — Rev. B. Carradine. 



132 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The best proof that one is filled with the Spirit is that he 
bears the fruits of the Spirit. — Dr. Torrey. 

We live in a day when much is said of holiness. Never 
has the great theme had such prominence as it is having 
now. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Isaiah says forgiveness makes us white as snow, and David 
says that cleansing makes us whiter than snow. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Be true to holiness, and the God of holiness will be true to 
you. — Selected. 

Many who sing, " Fill me now," would do better to sing, 
" Empty me now." — Christian IVitness. 

No doctrine makes men like God, as does holiness. — Rev. 
C. J. Fowler. 

God is holy, and demands a holy people. — Rev. G. P. 
Pardington. 

God could not be a holy God and be willing that His chil- 
dren should be unholy. — Dr. Morrison. 

Every soul must foot the bottom of Jordan for himself. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we will be 
cleansed from all sin. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

If we are obedient, God will bring about holiness in our 
hearts before He takes us home. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Holiness of heart is an absolute necessity in order to get 
the most out of the present life, and of that which is to come. 
— Rev. Chas. Dane. 

When the last vestige of the carnal mind is destroyed, and 
the child of God is weaned from the whole nutriment of 
carnal desires, strong meat is in demand. — Rev. J. IV. Hill, 
Sr„ D. D. 



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133 



It is faith in God that brings the blessing. — Rev. N orris. 

Holiness means purity, love, liberality, victory. — C. E. 
Cornell. 

Sin is destructive, holiness is constructive. — Rev. J. W. 
Hill, Sr. 

" Take time to be holy," should be the ruling passion of 
every life. — C. E. Cornell. 

To make possible holiness of heart and life, brought Jesus 
from heaven. — Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 

Holiness is the theme of the Bible. From Genesis to 
Revelation, the one great theme is holiness. — Rev. Chas. 
U. Dane. 

From the beginning, God has demanded that His people 
should love Him perfectly and entirely — that is, with all 
the capacity of their being — and that no rival affection 
should find any place in their hearts. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Holiness is wisdom for this world as well as for the 
world to come. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

To live in the saving light of God, we must be holy. — 
Way of Faith. 

If we walk in God, we walk in victory. It is a holy walk. 
— Victor Chafhn. 

The potter takes all the foreign elements out of the clay, 
then he moulds it to his own order. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

May God give us a quickened conscience and an obedient 
will to detect every form of defilement, and cleanse our- 
selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

O, it pays to be holy ! — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Holiness is not one great experience, but a constant life of 
fellowship and abiding. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 



134 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The beauties of holiness are love, joy, peace, and long- 
suffering. — Selected. 

The book of Deuteronomy means second blessing. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

God must cleanse according to His Word. — Bratnwelh 

Upon the meadow and the corn field, the farm house 
and the cottage, is written by the everlasting finger of God, 
" Holiness unto the Lord." — George McDonald. 

Do you know this blessed life hid with Christ in God? 
Have you learned to take His yoke upon you, and find it 
easy just because He bears the load Himself? — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

All love for sin taken away ! It is easy to abstain from a 
thing we don't want. — Rev. Trnmbaucr. 

If the coming of Christ has gripped your heart, and 
your heart is gripped by Him, you will seek to be purified, 
even as He is pure. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

Without full salvation we can not do all that God com- 
mands and requires us to do. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

The holiness taught in the Bible is the same as that lived 
by the saints of the Bible. The saints of the New Testa- 
ment showed us how holy people ought to live. — Christian 
Witness. 

It is more dangerous for believers to reject the Holy 
Ghost than for sinners to reject Jesus, for the Christian has 
more light than the sinner. — U. E. Ramsey. 

The great end to which God is laboring is our holiness. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

If " the carnal mind is enmity against God," and " is not 
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Rom. 
8:7), God, in commanding us to love Him with all our 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 35 

heart, must have provided for the removal or cleansing 
away of the mind that would make it impossible for us to 
obey. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

You may have your hearts so pure that there will be no- 
body in there to open the door for Satan to come in. — Rev. 
J. N. Short. 

As sure as you live, and God is above all, just so certain it 
is that this divine love planted in the heart of men will 
patiently suffer all that men and devils can inflict and all 
that God will permit. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 

It does not impoverish God to fill our vessels so full that 
they overflow. — Rev. Bausman. 

Pardon will publish itself in the actions of men; purity 
will publish itself in the keen inner feelings of the heart. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The love that prefers another's to its own, does not keep 
house with carnality. — Nettie Peabody. 

God could not be true to you and me without meaning the 
utter extermination of sin. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

We can not get along without a clean heart. — Rev. H. C. 
Morrison. 

Pardon introduces me to the kingdom of peace; purity 
introduces me to the kingdom of power. — Rev. G. D. Wat- 
son. 



HOSPITALITY. 

Many are so lacking in hospitality that they not only fail 
to " entertain strangers," but saints as well. — Rev. S. B. 

Shaw. 



136 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Hospitality is for service, not for show. — Bishop Hamil- 
ton. 

The early saints (unlike many in our day) were " given to 
hospitality." — Selected. 

Many, instead of showing their afflicted friends hospital- 
ity, show them the hospital. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



HOPE. 



Hope is something that relates to the future. It is not 
for something we have at present. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Pleasures of memory are sometimes delightful, but pleas- 
ures of hope are yet richer and brighter ; especially to the 
eye and thought of faith. — Sunday School Times. 

Hope is like the wing of an angel soaring up to heaven, 
and bearing our prayers to the throne of God. — Homeward- 
Bound Mission Herald. 

The hope that springs eternal in the soul is a blessing. — 
Rev. T. B. Frost. 

Faith establishes the heart on Jesus Christ, and hope lifts 
it up. — Robert Leighton. 

Not to be a Christian costs the sacrifice of hope. — R. A. 
Torrey. 

It takes a divine revelation to show us the hope of our 
calling. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Faith and hope make you full of expectation of all good 
things. — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

The stronger your faith, the greater is your hope. — H. B. 
Hosley. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 37 

God gives us hope, and then He must guide that hope that 
He has planted in the heart of man, if it is to prove a 
success for Him. — S. A. P. 

We never believe anything, and act upon it, until we first 
have hope that the thing is possible. — Selected. 

When Jesus was born, there came a new hope into the life 
of men. — Dr. Joseph Parker. 

Hope throws an arch of rainbow light across the blackest 
sky, and makes a man shout in the teeth of the storm. — Rev. 
Coursey. 

A man filled with the Spirit of God will be very hopeful. 
— Rev. D wight L. Moody. 

Our faith and hope must be in God. — Henry Wilcox, 
D. D. 



HUMILITY. 

I love the spirit of humility, because the lower we get 
down, the higher Christ lifts us. — Selected. 

We must be on our faces if we would know and receive 
the best things. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

It is only when we are near Christ that the greatness of 
love outweighs the love of greatness. — Selected. 

We must take Christ for our humility. We can not cul- 
tivate it as a mere human virtue. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Humility is paralyzing when it leads to discouragement, 
but stimulating when it throws us upon Christ. — Christian 
Missionary Alliance. 

If we keep humble and low on our faces, something is 
going to happen. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 



138 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

If we will take the lowest place we will get the largest 
blessing. — George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

What God wants is men great enough to be small enough 
to be used. — H. Webb-Petloe. 

Humility is a poor thing in the eyes of men, but it is the 
measurement of grandeur in heaven. — Rev. G. D. IVatson. 

We can't have the lower life unless we have the upper. — 
Dr. Wilson. 

Get down where God can handle us. — Dr. Carradine. 

A life of perfect humility is so sweet that the soul only 
wants more of it. — Rev. G. D. Waison. 

He who lives with God must be humble. — Rev. Phillips 
Brooks. 

If we are to have the mind of Christ we must have deep 
humility. — Rev. Huff. 

When God descends to talk to a man, and reveals some of 
His glory, self-esteem sinks to a very low ebb. — Mrs. 
Marion IV. Hubbard. 

A Christian in the progress of grace and wisdom is like 
a vessel laden for a port, the more it is rilled the deeper it 
sinks. — Rev. D. B. Kring. 

Moses' life consisted of one hundred and twenty years, 
divided into three forties. In the first forty years he was 
learning to be somebody ; in the second forty years he was 
learning to be nobody ; in the third forty years, he was 
proving what God could do with a man who had learned 
those two lessons. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

It is the broken spirit that God uses. — Rev. Byron J. Rces. 

Real faith is not found in a heart which seeks self-honor 
or glory from man. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Simplicity is the mark of perfection. — Rev. S. C. Leads. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 39 

I thank God I realize my littleness, and as I get more and 
more into obscurity, God becomes more and more to me. — 
Rev. Bausman. 

We must be child-like in our faith and in our willingness 
to learn from our God. — Bishop Goodsell. 

Humility is consistent with true self-reliance and force of 
character. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

True humility knows its nothingness, and is not discour- 
aged by the discovery and revelation of it. — Christian Mis- 
sionary Alliance. 

" Before honor is humility," and " He that humbleth him- 
self shall be exalted." — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

God comes to dwell in the humble heart. " With that 
man will I dwell that is humble and of a contrite heart and 
that trembleth at my word." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

As long as a man excuses or justifies pride in any form 
or to any degree, he will never be willing to die out entirely 
to the manners and customs of this wicked world, or to 
make himself " of no reputation," and to suffer the reproach 
of the cross. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The best men in the presence of God most deeply feel their 
un worthiness. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Moses forgot himself, hence God was able to clothe him 
with a crown of glory. — Andrew Bonar. 

When the world was waiting for its Redeemer, it was a 
little child that came to Bethlehem's manger as the incar- 
nate Son of God and the Saviour of mankind. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

The highest one in heaven dwells with the lowest one on 
earth, for what can be lower than a contrite, humble spirit? 
— Adaline A. Pollard. 



140 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is only the humble that ever find the Saviour. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

If you want a high place in heaven you must take a low 
place on earth. — Rev. G. D. Watson, D. D. 

We must become as little children before the Lord. We 
must be teachable. — 5. A. P. 

If we sink down low enough, we can see up into the third 
heaven. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Your Saviour and mine dwelt among the lowly and the 
poor. — Rev. J. N. Kenry. 

If you want to get where you will stand with Jesus, you 
must go down first, and then come in His resurrection 
life.— Rep. G. N. Eldridge. 

The more like Christ we grow, the more we shall feel 
sensible of our defects and shortcomings. — Christian Mis- 
sionary Alliance. 

Humility is the result of a deep experience, and therefore, 
just as grace increases, humility doth also increase. — Rev. 
D. B. Koeing. 

The secret of my success is that I have always given God 
all the glory. — Charles Finney. 

There is nothing so bright in all the constellation of 
Christian graces as humility. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

God doesn't want us to think He is partial to any of us. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

A man who knows his proper place can stoop and wash 
his brother's feet. — C. H. M. 

The highest lesson a believer has to learn is humility. — 
Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Come down, and be taught of God through common mor- 
tals — a wholesome dose. — Rev. T. K. Doty. 



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May God teach us to believe that to be humble, to be 
nothing in His presence, is the highest attainment and the 
fullest blessing of the Christian life. — Andreiv Murray. 

Christ won the highest place in glory by taking the low- 
est place on earth. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Humility gets the greatest insight into God. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

I beg the Lord every day to not let me trust myself. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Humility is a grace that the world can not produce. — 
Selected. 

The true test of loyalty is humility. — Selected. 

The more any man has of Christ in him, the more humble 
he will be. — Dr. Cotton Mather. 

Would you rise into a higher life with Christ, then be 
willing to go to the lowest depths of humility. — The Silent 
Evangelist. 

Jesus will be exalted when self is hidden and unnoticed. 
Edgar H. Sellew. 

Humble and tender hearts prevail with God. — Christian 
Standard. 

The child spirit is the characteristic of the disciple of 
Christ ; and the nearer we grow to His likeness, the more 
simple and childlike we become. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The holiest will be the humblest. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

If you have the heart of a child, you will discern the good 
in everybody, and see something to love, if possible. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

Men who have stood boldly to the front for God, such as 
Paul, Luther, Fox, Faber, Fenelon, Wesley, had they not 
been clothed with the armor of humility and perfect trust in 



142 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God, would have abandoned their work in despair. — Rev. 
Joseph S. Dempster. 

God's grace is placed underneath, and we have to get 
down, not up, in order to reach it. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

If you are willing to do little things, God will give you a 
bigger job. — C. E. Cornell. 

The crown jewel in the cluster of graces is a humble 
spirit. — Selected. 

Let us accept gladly whatever can humble us before God 
or men. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

If we have the mind of Christ, we will gladly take the 
lowest place in which we can do the work God assigns us, 
and be satisfied. Our Saviour made Himself of no reputa- 
tion, and to be like Him is to partake of His spirit of 
meekness and humility. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

No man can afford to risk standing in his own strength. 
— Dr. Albert Banks. 

It takes humility to be utterly unselfish at all times. — N. 
Ackerman. 

We never get any of God's riches until we get poor in 
spirit. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

O may God get you where He can bend and twist you as 
He will, and no fiber in you shall break. — Rev. H. N. Brown. 

Sometimes even our sins and faults are used, as Peter's 
were, to lay us lower at the feet of Jesus. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Many a Christian destroys his peace and usefulness be- 
cause he is not willing to do little things. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of increase of 
love.— Rev, T. J. Tigerf. D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 43 

Humility gets the deepest insight into God. — Rev. Dr. G. 
D. Watson. 

Humility is indeed the beauty of holiness. — Rev. George 
P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

Only as we lie humbly at our Master's feet and exalt 
Him, are we safe for a moment. — God's Revivalist. 

Let us follow the Master as He leads by the way of the 
cross, and we shall still find, step by step, that " He that 
humbleth himself shall be exalted." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The smaller we are, the more room God has. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

There is a sweetness about the life that is truly hid with 
Christ in God. — Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

O beloved, it is such a privilege just to be hid out of 
sight somewhere for God. — Rev. Kulp. 

We must keep in the dust, and realize that it is not by 
might or by power, but by God's Spirit. — Rev. H. M. 
Brown. 

Believer, study the humility of Jesus.— Rev. Andrew 
Murray. 

If we keep low, God will overrule even our failures. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



IDOLATRY. 

Anything that takes the place of God in our affections and 
interests breaks the first and second commandments. — Rev. 
G. P. Pardington. 

Any love that conflicts with our love for God is idolatry. 
— Selected. 



144 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must choose between God and all other kinds of wor- 
ship. " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me," is the 
divine commandment. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

He loves God too little who loves anything with Him that 
He loves not for Him. — Selected. 

Te be unduly wedded to a sect or creed is idolatry. — Se- 
lected. 

What earthly things you love more than God get between 
you and Him. — Selected. 

Anything that takes the place of God is an idol. — Selected. 

Man will give up everything and everybody but " Isaac." 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

To think more highly of anything than we ought to 
think is a measure of idolatry. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Whatever occupies the largest place in your heart is your 
Isaac. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

O for a revival that will turn the professed people of God 
back from their idols of sin and worldliness to serve the true 
and living God — back from their " broken cisterns " to the 
" Fountain of living waters." — Old-Time Religion. 



IMMORTALITY. 

Eternity is before you. Where will you spend it, in heaven 
or hell ? — U. G. Lyon. 

Eternity is made up of moments, and " lost time is lost 
eternity." — Lieut. Col. S. L. Brcngle. 

The fact of a future life for man is a chief corner-stone of 
religion. — Rev. S. A. W. Jewett, D. D. 



, SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 145 

It is only a step to eternity's shore. — Rev. Glascock. 

No grave will be dug that will bury the soul. It is to 
live on forever. — Rev. Will Huff. 

Oh, it is an awful truth that thou art, and that for weal or 
woe, immortal. — Rev. Levi Wood. 

The spiritual life dwells in eternity, where there is no to- 
morrow.— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Something within us wants to live on, to live on forever, 
and that in two worlds. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

There is a natural body, and it is naught, and there is a 
spiritual body, and it is life — life here and life forever and 
forever. — Sunday School Times. 

The close of life, the final step of life, the end of it all, is 
an eternal life. — Henry Drummond. 

O what an investment is this rational immortal nature 
which God has given us, which qualifies us for doing goOd 
and for eternal felicity; what majesty, what interest, what 
value, does this give to our souls. — Bishop E. S. James. 



IMPORTUNITY. 

Jesus tells us of an importunate man that wanted three 
loaves. He was not after crumbs, nothing but loaves would 
satisfy him. — Louis F. Mitchell. 

Jesus teaches us how to pray. He puts the emphasis on 
persevering. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Importunity is an essential element of prevailing prayer. 
— Etta E. Shaw. 

We are not to be heard for our " much speaking," but we 
will be heard for our importunity. — Etta E. Shaw. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



INDIVIDUALITY. 



God made every immortal soul to swing around Himself, 
with an orbit and a service and a destiny entirely unique, 
and forever and peculiarly belonging to itself. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

God does not want His children to ape each other, but to 
be true to their own God-given individuality. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Anything that weakens our individuality decreases our 
usefulness. — Selected. 

Individuality is God-given, and needs only to be sanctified 
— not destroyed. — Etta E. Shaw. 



INDWELLING CHRIST. 

When we have the sense of God's presence, difficulties 
will vanish ; when He is at our right hand, we shall not be 
moved. — Rev. Cornelius Woolfkin, D. D. 

The life of the Christian is the fruit of the spiritual life in 
the soul — Christ living in him. — Rev. N. R. Melton. 

There can be no letting the Christ-life in you shine out 
when there is no Christ there to shine. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Being filled with Christ is the best protection against evil. 
— Selected. 

Christ's new life belongs to you, and it is your life, and 
you may put it on, and wear it from this very moment, and 
say, " Not I, but Christ that liveth in me." — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 47 

God wants your human life as a basis ; but He wants to 
cut all the rest away, and engraft a new life upon it, even the 
life of Christ. Will you let Him ? — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

When Jesus lives in us, it is not we who move others, it is 
the Christ incarnated in our conduct. — Rev. T. L. Cuyler, 
D.D. 

The life of Christ is made manifest in our mortal flesh. — 
Selected. 

It is the privilege of every child of God to know the reality 
of the presence of Christ with him. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, 
D.D. 

Glorious old Paul was always abounding in the work of 
the Lord, and he told the secret of it when he said, " Christ 
liveth in me." — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

The life of the Lord touches every part of our spiritual 
nature as we have the Lord of the life. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, 
D. D. 

Mercy in humanity is Christ in humanity. It is so now. 
It always was so. — Rev. N. L. Rockey. 

Not only will Christ enter our roof, but He will make our 
heart His home forever. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

What we all need is to get the living Christ in our lives, 
and live Him out to the world. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

Christ in the heart is the greatest Christ-mas. — Selected. 

If Christ is in us, we will love all. — Bishop Simpson. 

When we have Jesus abiding in our hearts, we always 
have peace, for He is the Prince of peace. — /. N. Goddard. 

Find Christ and you have everything. — Bishop Vincent. 

When Jesus dwells in us, then we are filled with love unto 
all the fulness of God — the triune God, not only in heaven, 
but in our hearts. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 



148 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Abiding in Christ is to dwell in Him, and He in us — a 
double indwelling. — M. T. 

Dear Lord, I beseech of Thee, make Thy abode with me 
permanently. — T. S. Johnson. 

I am in Christ, and Christ is in me, and that is my safety. 
Mr. Bunch. 

Christ must reign in each life until He has put all things 
under His feet. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Christ in the heart will expel every power of evil. — Se- 
lected. 

We are millionaires in grace when we have the indwell- 
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ. — Selected. 

They couldn't kill Jesus so dead that He couldn't rise 
again, and He still lives in His own. — Dr. Morrison. 

Self-forgetfulness is the secret of obtaining the God-ful- 
ness. — Rev. F. E. Marsh. 



INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT. 

To be filled with the Holy Spirit means a world-wide love 
for souls. — $$lent Evangelist. 

He who gets the fulness of the Spirit gets all needed gifts 
with it. — Christian Witness. 

" Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," says 
the Scripture. Not liberty for us to do as we please, but 
liberty to do as He pleases in us. — A. J. Gordon. 

The Holy Spirit is to be had for the asking. — Selected. 

As long as the Holy Ghost dwells in your heart, you 
can not backslide. — Dr. Carradine. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 149 

Quietly tell your Lord Jesus of your feebleness; believe 
that the Holy Ghost is in you to teach you. — Murray. 

The Holy Ghost is as free as the air, and we ought all to 
be filled with the same. — A. E. Burlison. 

The Bible alone will not keep up the faith of God's chil- 
dren. We must have His Spirit working in our hearts. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

You will never know God's highest and best things, so 
long as you are half-filled with the Holy Ghost. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Let the Spirit come in to abide, and realize to you that 
God-pleasing desire of your heart. — Rev. D. T. Schultz. 

None can follow Christ as Master and Leader, and forget 
that their bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost. — A. W. 
Bradford, D. D. 

Just think of the God of all wisdom, power and love act- 
ing through you. — John McGahie. 

Jesus must be to us the Fountain of light and knowledge 
and truth. The Holy Ghost must be in us an ever-flowing 
stream of energy, perseverance, fire, love, zeal, courage, and 
fruitfulness. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

No man is at his best till he is filled with the Holy Ghost. 
'. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Holy Ghost comes to purify our hearts, and to sus- 
tain us in all the trials of life. — Rev. G. N. Valentine. 

No one, be he black or white, can come under the trans- 
forming power of the Holy Ghost and not become beautiful. 
— Rev. J. W. Hill. 

If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the 
whole of thy being from the Holy Ghost, then shalt thou see 
God and Jesus face to face. — Spurgeon. 



I50 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We shall shine, when illuminated by the Spirit. (Eph. 
5:8, g.)—Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

Brother, after the Holy Ghost has come to you, you will 
see things that will almost dazzle your eyes. — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

Even common men and women give out light and heat if 
filled with the Spirit. — Christian Register. 

When you get the Holy Ghost, He puts something in you 
that drives you forward. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Give yourself up for a habitation of the Holy Spirit. 
Let Him lead you. — Rev. B. T. Roberts. 

Be in the love of the Spirit, that you may be loving, and 
in His grace of humility, that you may be humble. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

If we are filled with God, we shall manifest it. — Rev. F. 
A. Hillery. 

One of the most blessed truths revealed to us in Scripture 
is that we are the temple of the living God. — Mrs. T. H. 
Robertson. 

Open your heart, and welcome the Holy Ghost in. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Jesus wants to give us the Holy Spirit, to keep us with 
Himself. — Selected. 

God will let us come into His fulness, and then let His ful- 
ness come into us. — Rev. Henry H. Kensaw. 

I had rather have the Holy Ghost burning in my soul, than 

the world full of gold and pleasure. — Abraham . 

The abiding presence of God is the heritage of every 
child of God. — Andrew Murray. 

When you are filled with light and love, you can stand 
true to God. — Dr. Br e see. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 151 

The greatest epoch in this life is to be filled with the Holy 
Spirit. — Francis A. Brewer. 

Let the Comforter come in, for where He reigns there is 
" perfect love." — God's Revivalist. 

"Be filled with the Spirit." But "how may I get it?" 
you ask. First by wanting it. — Rev. Jones. 

If we have the Holy Ghost abiding in our hearts, we will 
neither fear men nor devils, for perfect love casteth out fear. 
—W. Chaffin. 

We need the Spirit's fulness, for with it all our de- 
ficiencies are supplied. — Rev. Jones. 

Every believer who has the Holy Spirit will have some 
distinct desire about his life work. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God has got grace enough for every one of us, and if we 
were only full of the Holy Ghost what powers we would 
be. — D. L. Moody. 

The Spirit-filled believer is not afraid to obey God. — 
Rev. S. F. Wilcox. 

No device can satisfy the hungry soul of the child of 
God. The Holy Comforter must come in and give it rest. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

When the fire consumes all depravity and cleanses your 
heart, the Holy Ghost always fills you. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

We must not be content to be only cleansed from sin ; we 
must be filled with the Spirit. — Rev. John Fletcher. 

See to it that you have the divine Architect to counsel you. 
Let Him come in to live in your heart. He will help you 
to build for time and eternity. — Frank A. Doty. 

Sin dying and going out, makes room for the Holy Ghost 
to come in and live in your spirit forever. — Rev. W. B. 
Godbey. 



152 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Christian's heart is a temple of the Holy Ghost. — 
Rev. J. A. Wood. 

God wants us to be filled with Himself. — Deacon Morse. 

This is the " Golden Age " — having God in us. — Rev. 
Bailsman. 



INFLUENCE. 

Sometimes a single expression dropping from the lips 
reveals, like a flash, the lofty height of one soul to another. 

— Rev. B. Carradine. 

Who can measure the influence of a single soul won for 
Christ? — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Never a sincere word was utterly lost. — Mary Putman 
Gilmore. 

When a man is at his best and does his best with the power 
of God that is given him, that man is a power in God's 
kingdom. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

The Pharaohs have passed away, with all their pomp and 
power, but the character of Moses grows more illustrious 
as the ages roll. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Somebody is going to heaven or hell because of our lives. 

— Rev. B. Carradine. 

Nobody knows who that man in the gospel was who bore 
the pitcher of water, but he led the disciples to the room 
where they took the last supper with Christ on earth. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

Wherever we are, and whatever we do, we may be wit- 
nesses for God and soul winners, by the attraction of a con- 
sistent and beautiful life. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 53 

A Christian character is a thing of growth. It is Chris- 
tian character that tells above everything else. — Dr. Mor- 
rison. 

O, that we may represent the Father, by manifesting His 
own life. — Selected. 

You are your brother's keeper by the law of human 
brotherhood and by the command of your risen Lord, and 
no excuse can relieve you of this responsibility. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Your help, seemingly so small, your little gift, your mod- 
est word, your lowly life, your silent prayer, may be the de- 
cisive factor in some great issue that will evangelize a na- 
tion, or save a soul. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Our courage and hopefulness may prove a source of en- 
couragement to some fainting brother. — Free Methodist. 

God wants us to live so we will bless every home we enter. 

— Rev. Compton. 

Let us keep in mind that God and men expect best things. 

— Selected. 

Just think of the example of a godly man ! — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

You can shine afar through other lives where your feet 
may never go. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

So live that whosoever seeth thee, may praise God. — St 
Francis. 

Let us see to it that we so hold our cups as that their 
overflowing may not run to waste, but may drop into other 
cups. — F. B. Meyer, B. A. 

O, what a blessing is a sainted mother. To-day I can 
feel her hand on my head, and I hear the intonation of her 
voice in prayer. — Bishop Simpson. 



154 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Nothing speaks louder than a simple, humble, holy life. — 
Rev. Joseph S. Dempster. 

Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suf- 
fering, rests with yourself. — George S. Mcrriam. 

In order to lift others you must let God lift you. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Wherever you go, carry a savor of Christ. Let men take 
knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus. — Selected. 

If you would be electric with influence, go out with the 
spirit of divine courage. — Rev. F. C. Scott. 

More often we go blindly onward, not knowing when we 
meet or pass the soul to whom we might have ministered. 

— Constance Conrad. 

We are living sermons whether we preach a word or not. 

— E. W. 

A tract has turned the destiny of many a life. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

The spirit of gladness and of glory convicts the ungodly 
and testifies powerfully for God. — Maggie L. Vail. 

I want my life to stand and to point upward to God. — 
Rev. T. E. Sharp. 

Righteousness always inspires confidence. — Rev. M. IV. 
Knapp. 

Jesus will help us to help others, if we are in His will. — 
Mary Clark. 

The more religion you give away, the more you have. — 
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

What this world needs, is Jesus Christ lived out among 
its people. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons 
in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Selected. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 55 

A godly life has a voice. — Selected. 

When you leave this world, leave it better by your having 
lived in it.— S. A. P. 

A clean heart, a clean life, a clean tongue, and a clean, 
neat apparel attract men toward the cross. — Clark Jones. 

There is in the life of a holy man or woman, one who 
walks and lives with God, a secret, indescribable reserve 
power and influence that impresses people. — Rev. John Pen- 
nington. 

We are responsible for the use of our talents and for our 
influence. — Christian Witness. 

The loving life, pure, self-controlled and devoted to the 
kingdom, like the obscure life among the Galilean hills, can 
not be hid. — Rev. Wilbur F. Sheridan. 

It takes contact with God to put the beautifying, angelic 
look into a human face. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

How potent an influence, if every time you touch life you 
have God with you. — Rev. George Calvert Carter. 

Every true Christian, whether in high or humble station, 
is found to be a preacher of the gospel. — Rev. Theodore L. 
Cuyler. 

When Christ is in any home or any life, it soon becomes 
known. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

God wants some people to put on exhibition, that in the 
wear and tear of life will stand the tests and stand pure as 
angels. — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 

God has given to every one of us the power to be spiritual, 
and by our spirituality to lift and enlarge and enlighten 
the lives we touch. — Phillips Brooks. 

It is a marvelous thing to see how a pure and innocent 
heart purifies all that it approaches. — F. W. Robertson. 



156 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

A spiritual life, expressing itself in honorable dealings 
with all men everywhere, carries with it a testimony of 
convincing power. — C. H. Wetherbee. 

It takes the crises of life to prove Christianity. — Rev. 
Joseph Smith. 

I want to leave the power of my life for good, when I 
have passed away from earth. — S. A. P. 

A Christian's life is the world's Bible. — D. L. Moody. 

Good deeds never die. — Selected. 

No person is entirely without influence. We touch other 
lives. — Selected. 

Let us search ourselves and see if we have such peculiar 
ways or notions that people are noticing them more than the 
pure light of God's love. — M. E. Hoz^ell. 

Christians can sometimes do more by shining for God 
than by speaking for Him. — Andrew J. Bonar. 

O individual Christian, God saved you, not for your sake 
alone, but that He might, through you, save others whom 
He loved as well as you ; and if you had walked in all the 
light given and the added light that would have come to 
you if God had had all His way in your heart, He alone 
knows what your life might ere this have accomplished in 
the salvation of others. — Old-Tiine Religion. 

Looking at some saintly life we become convicted of our 
own unsaintliness and turn to the source from which the 
blessing came to our brother or sister. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The world has no time to waste on the Bible ; it is too 
busy after selfish interest, but it does read God's people. — 
Rev. E. S. Dunham. 

Christians whose religion shines in the face will spread 
the light wherever they go. — Christian Advocate. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 57 

Jesus bids us shine, you in your small corner, and I in 
mine.— E. M. C. 

We should rise superior to every cloud of sin and doubt, 
and shine eternally for God. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

The life speaks truer and louder than the lips. — Rev. An- 
drew Murray. 



INTERCESSION. 

Great is the power of intercession ! Moses interceded for 
rebellious Israel when the justice of God demanded their 
utter destruction, and God granted him the desire of his 
heart. Samuel " cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the 
Lord heard him," and " the Philistines were subdued, and 
they came no more into the coasts of Israel ; and the hand 
of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of 
Samuel." Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah prevailed for Israel 
in their captivity, and God opened their way and brought 
them back to their own land. — Old-Time Religion. 

An intercessory prayer is one filled with emotions: — Rev. 
G. P. Pardington. 

Christ chose you and appointed you to pray for others. — 
Murray. 

The greatest victories ever witnessed by the people of God 
have been the results of fasting and prayer. — Rev. S. B. 
Shazv. 

The Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers is said to 
intercede for them (Rom. 8:26) when He puts words into 
their mouths, and holy desires into their hearts, such as 
they would otherwise fail of, but which are according to 



158 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

the will of God and acceptable to Him through Christ. — 
Selected. 

The earnest cry of God's own elect soon brings an answer. 
— Rev. George Hughes. 

Old-time revivals are the result of extraordinary revela- 
tions of God's wrath against sin, and of His power and 
glory and of His love and mercy. These revelations are 
brought about by the intercession of His saints. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Don't stop praying for your loved ones too soon. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

Let us go down before God in deep humility of spirit and 
pour out our hearts before the Lord in earnest prayer, nor 
cease till heaven responds, hell groans, and earth trembles, 
and declares, " Of a truth, these are the people of God ! " — 
Rev. J. A. Kring. 

By bearing the pangs of soul travail, the child of God can 
save others from bearing the pangs of hell. — .S. B. Shaw. 



JOY. 

Joy and peace are married to each other. — Rev. Broad- 
head. 

It is a day to date from, when God, Father, Son, and Holy 
Spirit, become the supreme joy of your life. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Often the people who are the most miserable in the things 
of earth are the most joyful in the Lord. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 59 

Let us all determine, with God's help, to learn the lesson 
of joy. — Great Thoughts. 

I find more joy in living for Jesus than the possession of 
the world could afford in a lifetime. — Rev. Todd. 

Look for joy in the Word, not in the world. — Rev. D. L. 
Moody. 

Spiritual happiness is possible under all circumstances. 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Many indeed think of being happy with God in heaven ; 
but being happy on earth never enters their thoughts. — John 
Wesley. 

The true life of happiness is that life " hidden with 
Christ in God." — Silent Evangelist. 

A soul full of divine joy is a mystery to people of the 
world, who comprehend no happiness except what is of the 
earth. — Way of Faith. 

The joy of the Lord is the highest possible attainment; 
the wealth of the world is to be despised in comparison 
with it. — John McGahie. 

The Christian has got the right to at all times be joyous 
and to lift up his heart with gladness. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, 
D.D. 

Let us never forget that an act of goodness is of itself an 
act of happiness. — Maurice Materlinck. 

As we continue to look on the bright side of life, joy will 
come. — Rev. Bausman. 

If you want the deepest, highest, purest, and most un- 
speakable joy on earth, take Jesus Christ this very moment. 
— Way of Faith. 

We are to have the oil of gladness, and not to be satisfied 
with simply the essence of gladness. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 



160 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The joy of the Lord is divine. It assures us of God's pres- 
ence. — Rev. Parsclls. 

There is no limit to the joy of the Lord. — Rev. John Pen- 
nington. 

God intends to show Himself to us in great joy. It is a 
great thing to consider in these sad days. — Rev. Parsclls. 

There is no joy like the joy of God. He commanded me 
to do nothing but what I shall find a blessing in doing. — 
Chimes. 

There is happiness in everything to the child of God. — 
Rev. F. E. Marsh. 

God's love in the heart makes a happy heart. — Rev. C. P. 
Marden. 

The longer you live the better you understand that true 
happiness is to be found in a life devoted to God and given 
up entirely to His guidance. — C. M. Yonge. 

Abiding and increasing joy is an element of growth in 
grace.— Rev. J. W. Hill, D. D. 

God does rule all things, and for this very reason we 
ought to rejoice always. — Rev. C. H. Wetherbee. 

We never can enjoy ourselves until we enjoy the presence 
of God in the heart. — Christian Witness. 

Blessed are they that mourn and sow in tears, because 
they shall reap in joy the harvest of eternal glory. — Pcnelon. 

Earth's sweetest joy needs heaven to make it complete. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

It isn't what people say about you that makes you happy, 
it is what God knows about you. — Rev. Dud Robinson. 

When we speak of joy we do not speak of something we 
are after, but of something that will come after us, when we 
are after God and duty. — Bushncll. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. l6l 

"Ask," says Jesus, " that your joy may be complete." — 
Annie R. Bailey. 

The Christian alone knows the joys that are eternal. — 
Florida Christian Advocate. 

The joy of the Lord will prove our strength in adversity 
as well as prosperity, and in trial as assuredly as when 
all men speak well of us. — Rev. S. B. Shaiv. 

Nothing can take away the Christian's joy but sin. — 
Chimes. 

Communion with God has the effect of making us joyous. 
— Andrew A. Bonar. 

Heaven lends its wings out through hope to the faithful 
here, and thus, rejoicing already in the glory of God, their 
joy is full — overflowingly full. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Happiness is contagious. The joy of the Lord in one's 
life makes others want the same thing. — Evangelist Ruth. 

What we have to hope for in the life to come is to enter 
into the joy of our Lord. — Charles Kingsley. 

Obedience to Christian duty is one secret of Christian 
happiness. — Zion's Herald. 

If the devil can not stop you from getting religion, he 
will try his best to hinder you from enjoying it. — Vanguard. 

If you simply let God bless you all He wants to, you will 
be able to enjoy Him under all circumstances of life. — Van- 
guard. 

" The kingdom of God " is " joy in the Holy Ghost." 
Dear friend, do you know anything of that joy? — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

The joy that does not flow through Christ is spurious, and 
will soon be turned to grief. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God is the source of all true joy. — Selected. 



l62 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

In joy we should gather comfort for the days of sorrow. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Let us rejoice in the Son coming with God's perfect love 
to dwell within. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

There is no felicity this side of heaven so sweet and rap- 
turous as a perfectly clear sky between the soul and God. — 
/. N. Tomlin. 

The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the 
glory. — F. W. Farrar, D. D. 

Religion exhilarates and delights the man of God. — Dr. 
Levy. 

Our heavenly joys are eternal, and when the Lord comes 
we will learn the meaning of permanent joy. — Faith H olden. 

Not to be a Christian costs the sacrifice of the highest, 
deepest, purest, holiest, most overflowing joy that can be 
known right here on earth. — R. A. Torrey. 

If you would get out of your misery, get out of your 
earthliness and selfishness, and learn to know your heavenly 
calling and your Saviour's joy. — Christ in the Bible, Vol. 5. 

The deeper the conviction and the more thorough the 
repentance, the brighter and more glorious will be the joy 
of deliverance. — 5". B. Shaw. 

Holiness and happiness are closely united. — L. B. Atkins. 

Trust in God is a wellspring of joy and peace in the 
heart, springing up evermore unto life eternal. — Selected. 

To live in the Spirit is to be always happy. — Italian 
Bishop. 

Joy is the natural and inevitable outcome of intercourse 
with God. — /. R. Campbell. 

The deepest and divinest joy in earth or heaven is born of 
holiness.— Rev. J..W. Hill, Sr., D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 163 

When we open our hearts to God, He changes our groan- 
ings to singing, so that our mouths declare His wonderful 
works. — Epworth Herald. 

No one ever did get happy until he was made free from 
sin. — Selected. 

Self-forgetfulness, Christ-contentedness, is the secret of 
true happiness. — Mary Monroe Dennis. 

It is indeed true that we never find the heights of spir- 
itual happiness until we touch the fountain of sacrifice. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Joy which comes through victory over sin is joy indeed. — 
/. B. Lyde. 

Many a man since David's day has proven the " joy of the 
Lord " his strength. — C. O. Moulton. 

Heart religion is a happy religion. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

The fountain of peace and joy is in the heart. — Rev. 
Theodore L. Cuyler. 

The word " delight " in the Bible mans joy in the heart. — 
Selected. 

We have to forsake every sin to get God's joy. — Rev. G. 
D. ' Watson. 

If you fret, you can not rejoice; and if you rejoice, you 
can not fret. — Colonel Brengle (Salvation Army) . 

It is not till Omnipotence runs His fingers over the strings 
of our heart that it brings out the harmony of abounding 
happiness. — Rev. F. W. Troy, D. D. 

Happiness lives next door to complete acquiescence in the 
will of God. — C. H. Spurgeon. 

The joy of the Lord is a wonderful thing among His peo- 
ple. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 



164 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

JUDGING. 

We must get off our judgment thrones, and keep our feet 
in the narrow way. — Rev. J. R. Doivner. 

Lord save us from false judgments. — Rev. M. W . Knapp. 

It is a dreadful thing to discount a real work of God. — 
Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We may judge of the action, but let God judge of the 
motive and of the measure of responsibility. — Etta E. Shaiv. 

The sin of judging is one of the worst things of which 
the human heart is capable. — Selected. 

Many a human verdict will be reversed when the Judge 
of all renders His final decision. — Etta E. Shaw. 

Where the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong. — 
Kane O'Hara. 



KINGDOM OF GOD. 

The kingdom of God is always out of the ordinary lines ; 
the kingdom of God is always extraordinary. — Rev. G. 
Campbell Morgan. 

The kingdom of God is built with its foundations in the 
heart. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The key to the gospel is found in the word " kingdom." 
— Rev. J. D. Williams. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 65 

LIFE. 

Reckon not upon long life. Do your work well, and let 
your surprise in the end be in having accomplished more 
than you expected. — Michigan Christian Advocate. 

The end of life is to do the will of God. — Spurgeon. 

We must bow down before Him who is the foundation 
of all life, the life of all who live. — Wilberforce. 

Life is for the sinner ; an abundant life is for the believer. 
— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

God needs your life, or He would not have placed you in 
this world.— S. A. P. 

The Bible makes a clear distinction between natural and 
spiritual life. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

It is in Christ that we find the life which is life indeed. — 
Rev. J. Ossian Davies. 

What is life but a glad, present consciousness of God and 
self and duty, and a hearty obedience thereto. — Lieut. Col. 
S. L. Brengle. 

Life is more serious than death, because life makes death 
possible, and opens to view the life beyond death. — Michigan 
Christian Advocate. 

Empty the cup of your own life, and God will fill it with 
His. — Christian Witness. 

God has different ways of preserving a man's life till his 
work is done, and nothing can defeat Him if we keep our- 
selves absolutely in His hands. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Man enlarges his life by every experience of life. — Se- 
lected. 

Your life is what God wants. It is of the highest price. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



l66 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

LIGHT. 

Reason says there is a God, and that He has a law for 
the government of mankind ; and in harmony with His love 
and mercy, He gives a revelation of His holy will to His 
lost, blind, prodigal children. — ,S\ B. Shaw. 

Every degree of light that God gives is to be retained and 
used. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

God wants us to improve all the light He gives us. — 
Evangelist Glascock. 

The Light of lights is God's revealing Spirit. — Canon 
Knox Little. 

" Let your light so shine before men that they may see 
your good works and glorify your Father which is in 
heaven," for the world only believes what it sees. — Selected. 

If you don't walk in the light you don't want more light. 

— Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

It is true that the light of heaven will fall upon all the 
hilltops and the valleys and upon the prospect beyond it, but 
it. is meant in all this, to be most especially a light to our 
path and a lamp to our feet. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God's Spirit is given to reprove the whole world of sin 
and of righteousness and of judgment (see John 16: 8), and 
to every soul held accountable before God, sufficient light is 
given to point out a way of escape from the penalty for sin. 

— S. B. Shaw. 

After conversion, God is our joy, comfort, guide, teacher, 
and in every sense light ; He is light within, light around, 
and light to be revealed to us. — C. H. Spnrgeon. 

You must live up to all of the light you have, and all the 
light you can get. — Dr. C. J. Fowler. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 67 

If called through the "valley of the shadows," God will 
be a light to your path. Shadows prove that there is a light. 
— E. M. C. 

If we walk in the light of God, we will soon cry out for 
full salvation. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Some degree of influence over human hearts, God holds 
in His own hands. The Holy Spirit is in the world to 
reprove men of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. 
Whether the church is right or not — whether she does or 
whether she does not do that which God demands, God's 
Spirit brings to every responsible soul sufficient light to make 
possible His salvation. — Old-Time Religion. 



LOVE. 



What a God of love He is, who longs for even the poor 
miserable love we have to give. — Shorat Chucket -fully. 

Love is the essence of heaven. " God is love." — Rev. E. 
J. D. Pepper. 

You will soon learn to love anything which makes the 
power and presence of God real to you. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Through faith God has all chance to work in us ; through 
love, all opportunity to work through us. — Rev. James M. 
Conkey. 

" Love, out of a pure heart," is a wonderful thing. It is 
the greatest thing. — Rev. Trumbauer. 

God demands love in us because He is love, and He has 
made us to love Him. The atonement is the carrying out 
of a predetermination to make the love-attribute of God the 
highest success. At first thwarted by sin, the cross of Christ 



l68 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

embodies love in a higher degree than otherwise was pos- 
sible. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

We become God-like just in proportion as we incarnate 
love. — Selected. 

Love stops at no peril, no sacrifice. — Selected. 

Love is the badge by which the true children of God are 
known forever. — A Missionary. 

Let love reign in your soul, and the demon of anger will 
find no place. — Guide to Holiness. 

God not only loves man, but God wants to be loved by 
man. — Sunday School Times. 

If a man would be like God as every man ought to be, man 
will not only be loving, but he will want to be loved, and 
will be lovable. — Sunday School Times. 

If the world is ever to be conquered, it will be conquered 
by love. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

A religion without love is worse than no religion. With- 
out love we are nothing. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Put Christ's love to the trial, and put upon it our burden, 
and then it will appear love indeed. We employ not His 
love, and therefore we know it not. — Samuel Rutherford. 

The devil can not counterfeit love ; it is the greatest thing 
in the world. — Mr. Burlingame. 

The best kind of love to God is that which has sound in- 
telligence as its guiding power. — Holland Patent. 

If we die without God's love, what will knowledge avail 
us ? — Selected. 

The indwelling of the Holy Ghost kindles the soul into a 
conflagration of love. It makes it hot with love, and there 
is nothing better on earth or in heaven than a heart hot 
with love. — Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 169 

Love is the perfect tense of live. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

The more we love God the more we shall feel the need of 
so doing. — Selected. 

God's love is beyond the explanation of any pen or tongue. 
— Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Love is God's open pathway for the angels to ascend and 
descend to the human heart. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Love is the coronation of faith. — Selected. 

Love is the greatest thing God can give us, for Himself 
is love. — Jeremy Taylor. 

God's love, clothed with faith, is the most powerful 
weapon on earth. — Rev. Helm. 

One of the greatest needs of the present day in the relig- 
ious world is love. — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

A Christ loving heart is the true ordination. — Rev. Theo- 
dore L. Cuyler. 

Love is the spirit of the gospel — " God so loved the 
world." — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

When the soul is born of God, the love of God is shed 
abroad in it, by the Holy Ghost given unto it. — 5. A. Keen, 
D. D. 

A heart filled with God's kind of love, loves the soul of a 
hypocrite. — D. A. Hill. 

I am so glad that God's love is a thing that the devil can 
not counterfeit. — Rev. S. H. Hadley. 

God's love is perfect, and always at flood-tide. — Dr. A. T. 
Pierson. 

The only way to show our love to God is by keeping His 
commandments. — John Vance. 

Speak in a spirit of tender love, which many waters can 
not quench. — John Wesley. 



170 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God's love is not rounded out until I respond to it. — 
Maltbie D. Babcock. 

Love makes the sturdy bones, and love makes the tender 
flesh, to form the body of a Christian life. — Rev. G. D. Wat- 
son. 

Many people reverence God who do not love Him. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

Live in the larger life of love. God gives most to those 
who love most. — Selected. 

Of all of God's wonderful gifts, the greatest is love — 
the greatest and freest. — 5". A. P. 

Our love will be large or small as we know the love of 
Christ, and are filled with His Spirit. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The need of the Christian world to-day is love. — Florence 
E. Dayton. 

The love of God will be shed abroad in every heart that 
is not closed against Him. — New York Christian Advocate. 

The Christian life is living out love. — Christian Witness. 

Pure love will not keep well unless it is kept warm. — Se- 
lected. 

Love is the chief force that God purposes to use in the up- 
lift and betterment of mankind. — Selected. 

Love is the mother of all the other graces. — Selected. 

When God puts love into a man's heart, He puts it there 
with the purpose and desire that it be as enduring and eter- 
nal as He is. — Selected. 

If you have God's love you have all the other graces of 
the Spirit. — Selected. 

How Jesus loves the soul that is abandoned to His arms 
without any reserve. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The whole Christian life centers in love. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 171 

Let us go to Jesus and learn to love. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

Love is the soil in which God plants us. — Nettie Peabody. 

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a 
conditional prayer. — Rev. T. J. Tigert, D. D. 

The will of God is the will of His love ; how can you fear 
to surrender? — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Love is the only thing that can truly and perfectly obey 
God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The love of God makes us live and die triumphant. — Se- 
lected. 

A true Christian is not governed by law, but by love — 
" the love of Christ constraineth me." — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

Love's secret, therefore, is to be always doing things for 
God, and not to mind because they are little ones. — Faber. 

God wants us all to have hearts that are fed only on His 
love.— S. A. P. 

Greatest proof of love is this, that I press near the inmost 
heart of Him I love, and am permitted with Him to bear 
some of His own heart's sorrow. — Selected. 

Let us learn to love all people. — Bishop Simpson. 

The most potent principle in the Christian heart is love to 
Christ. — William M. Taylor. 

The great essential in reaching men is to love them. 
This opens the door by which the hardest heart is entered. — 
Rev. Morrison. 

Love can make itself understood without speaking, and 
even without thinking. — Fenelon's " Christian Counsel." 

Whoever loves, in us, our beauty of soul, loves us truly. — 
Saint Ambrose. 

Love is life, life is love. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 



172 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Love is the brightest star in the Christian firmament, the 
largest flower in the garden of God. — Joseph Cross. 

Love is the greatest thing God can give us. — Jeremy 
Taylor. 

Would to God our love was always as His love. — Rev. 
John N orb err y. 

God loves the world even as He loves His only Son. — 
M. D. Collins. 

It is love that brings sure triumph out of every pain and 
woe that besets us. — Dr. Bridewell. 

Let thy love so warm our souls, O Lord, that we may 
gladly surrender ourselves with all we are and have, unto 
Thee. — Gerhard Terteegen. 

There is a sweeter word than obligation. It is love. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

The only greatness is unselfish love. — Henry Drummond. 

Fervent Christian love continually increases. — Rev. E. 
I. D. Pepper. 

Paul rightly puts the gift of love above all others. — David 
W. Muir, Jr. 

Whenever Christ enters a man truly and takes possession 
of him, one of the unmistakable marks of His being in the 
man is the new love that begins to appear in the man's life. 
— /. R. Miller, D. D. 

It requires a love of God in the soul to see God. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

The silken thread of love runs all through the Bible. — 
S. A. P. 

Real love, pure and fervent love, means more than the 
absence of hatred, and will manifest itself in fruit. It will 
show itself both in word and deed. — Rev. S. B. SInvzc. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 73 

Love is the life of the Christian soul, as blood is the life of 
the body. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Love is the element of highest vision. — Rev. A. B. Simp- 
son. 

I believe with all my heart that the love-line is the only 
line that will finally win. — John Norberry. 

How sweet the constraining love of Christ, like a fur- 
nace-blast melting the " I must " into the " I will," duty into 
delight. — Dr. Daniel Steele, D. D. 

We want to get close enough to God to get something, 
and then keep in the love of God. — Rev. Compton. 

Pure love strips self from a man and clothes him with 
Jesus Christ, so that it is no more I that live but Christ that 
liveth in me. — Fenelon's Letters. 

Jesus takes all the selfishness out of us, and puts love in 
like Himself. — Deacon Morse. 

When we are in harmony with Jesus, He fills us with His 
love. — Selected. 

When a man gets a correct view of Jesus, he loves all men 
and cares for all men. — Dr. Morrison. 

The pure mother love is God's way of showing how He 
wants us to love. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Christian love made perfect in Christ Jesus, can not be 
estimated in value. — /. A. Pingree. 

God demands the intense and supreme love of His people. 
— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Love to God is the foundation of love to man ; right rela- 
tions to God are the first step to right relations to man. — 
Wilbur F. Crafts. 

All hell can not deceive a heart full of the love of God and 
His Spirit. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



174 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Love is the greatest thing we can give the Lord, for it will 
give ourselves and carry all with it that is ours. — Jeremy 
Taylor. 

Those who truly love God, love all good wherever they 
find it. — The South African Pioneer. 

We must love God completely in order to love others 
rightly. — Way of Faith. 

No man comes to highest glory till He loves God with all 
his heart. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

Only the heart that loves sweetest, purest, and best, in the 
human sense, is best fitted to love God in the highest sense. 

— Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Only pure love is willing to suffer, for only pure love sur- 
renders itself to God. — Fenelon's Christian Counsel. 

Enlarge your sympathies to take in the whole human race. 

— Dr. Daniel Steele. 

You may talk to people till you go blind ; but if you know 
you love them, you can win them every time. — Rev. S. H. 
Hadley. 

If we would be like Christ, we must seek not to be loved, 
but to love. — Northzvestern Christian Advocate. 

All through the Bible are passages which show that love 
is a health tonic, and actually lengthens life. — Selected. 

Be a lover — a soul filled with the love of the thirteenth 
chapter of First Corinthians — and you have found the 
chance of your life. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

No one can love God a little without desiring to love Him 
with all his heart ; and no one can love with all his might, 
without desiring a larger capacity for loving. — Faber. 

It is love, affection, and communion the Lord wants. — Dr. 
John Robertson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 75 

You can not be successful in God's work unless you have a 
heart full of divine love. — Selected. 

True religion requires us to love even our enemies. — The 
Pentecostal Era. 

God wants your love more than your labor. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 



MEDITATION. 

My soul, thou wouldst muse more, the fire would burn 
more. — George Mattheson. 

Faith may be cultivated by meditation upon the ways and 
works of God. — C. M. Damon. 



MEEKNESS. 

We must have the victory of silence, so that we can be 
like Jesus, when He opened not His mouth, when He was 
led as a sheep to the slaughter. — Rev. C. O. Moultoti. 

When God wanted to lead the children of Israel out of 
bondage He only selected one man. That was Moses, and he 
was the meekest man of his day and time. — S. A. P. 

If we have the mind of Christ we will condescend to men 
of low estate. — S. B. Shaw. 

The man whom God uses will always be known by the 
spirit of meekness. — Selected. 

The greatest grace is meekness. This signifies our noth- 
ingness before God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Meekness — it is love in training. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 



176 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The children of God should not contend for their rights, 
only at the throne of grace. — The Silent Evangelist. 



MEMORY. 



Memory will not be buried with our bones, but will live 
on in the eternal world as our tormentor or recompense. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Memory is immortal, and is a power of the soul. — Rev. 
Blackzvell. 



MERCY. 



Goodness supplies our needs, and mercy blots out our sins. 

— Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. 

The paths of God have been to us nothing else but mercy. 

— Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. 

A saved and sanctified man finds that everything tastes 
of mercy. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

The infinite God who rules the universe has poor little sin- 
ful you and me on His heart. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuylcr, 
D.D. 

How many weary, sin-sick souls would come to God if 
they could only believe that they could find mercy. — Se- 
lected. 

If the day of mercy leaves you graceless, the day of wrath 
may leave you speechless. — Churchman's Magazine. 

God links mercy and pardon together. — Rev. M. L. 
Hancy. 



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177 



Don't be occupied with your miseries. Be taken up with 
Christ's mercies, and you will find His mercies outweigh all 
your miseries. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 



MISSIONS. 

That land is henceforth my country that most needs the 
gospel. — Count Fitzgerald. 

A Bible School is the seed corn of missions. — Bishop 
Taylor. 

Our best men should give their time in helping the spread 
of Christianity to the uttermost parts of the earth. — Chas. 
Vernon Vicery. 

We may go where we will with the gospel of Christ. — 
Selected. 

What is in your part for the world's evangelization? — 
Selected. 

When Christians get near enough to God to burn with 
indignation at an insult to His holy name, no other plea will 
be necessary to spur to mission work. — Rev. David L. An- 
derson. 

Know, grow, glow, go. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The true Christian heart can not but give to others the 
salvation which Christ has given to us. — Rev. A. B. Simp- 
son. 

What is a greater purpose than saving the world for 
Christ? — Rev. Chas. T. Reed. 

The authority for foreign missions issues from the throne 
of God. — Josiah Strong, D. D. 



178 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



MODERATION. 



Nothing but the Christlike mind will save from all forms 
of excess. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

You have to pray for the Lord to keep your head level, as 
well as to keep your heart pure. — Selected. 

We must live in close fellowship with the Master, and 
" walk in the Spirit " if we would know when to speak, and 
when to hold our peace. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

I'm justified and sanctified and modified. — D. F. 

God help us to keep in the middle of the way ; then we 
will live according to the Word of God, and be filled with 
the Spirit.— Wm. A. Phillips. 

We need hot hearts and cool heads. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

You need the gift of wisdom to enable you to do the 
right thing in the right way. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 



OBEDIENCE. 

God is looking for obedience. He wants people who will 
say " Yes " in their hearts. — Rev. Kid p. 

Beloved, if God can find men who will square their lives 
by the Bible, and live by the truth, there is nothing promised 
in the Book but what God will give them. — Rev. Compton. 

It would make Christian life very simple, if we understood 
that the one thing to do is always to obey God. — Rev., J. R. 
Miller. 

The real object of life is simply to do the will of God. — 
Henry Dritmmond. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 79 

Our "wills" bring down God's "shall." — Selected. 

No human law either of the State or family, should be 
obeyed, when it conflicts with a direct command of God. — 
Rev. G. P. ■ Partington. 

Nothing grieves the Holy Spirit more than disobedience. 
When He speaks we must listen ; when He commands we 
must obey. — Rev. G. P. Partington. 

God wants His way with us all the time ; He is not pleased 
with anything short of obedience ; that is command and 
demand ; the angels obey Him and He wants perfect obedi- 
ence from us. — Mrs. Lamson. 

Pray and obey God. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

God wants us to please Him whether any one else knows 
it or not.— Mrs. M. W. Knapp. 

We will " trust and obey." There is no other way that 
brings peace and joy to the soul. — Robert Steele. 

To " fear God and keep His commandments " is not only 
the greatest duty and the most important duty but the 
" whole duty " of men. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

On a life of obedience and faith God shines as the sun 
on a block of crystal, sending its radiance through the willing 
and transparent mass and warming and lightening it all into 
its inmost depths. — Phillips Brooks. 

The key to the kingdom of heaven is obedience. — 
Selected, 

Obedience springs from love of Christ in the heart. — Rev. 
C. E. Cornell. 

Nothing pleases God so well as obedience — the faithful 
doing of His will. — Selected. 

When we get in love with God and get His love in return, 
it will make us obedient to Him. — 5* — . 



l8o SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The only way we show our belief in, and love to God, is 
by keeping His commandments. — John Vance. 

Obedience is the test of our sincerity. — Rev. Charles W. 
Dane. 

When we are wholly given to God, we will not talk back 
to God. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

If we obey, God is responsible for everything else, and 
will get glory to Himself out of it. — Mattie Perry. 

It is not enough merely to accept Christ as our Saviour ; 
we must take Him also as our Lord and Master. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

When God gives a command, He is ready to make the 
way to obey it. — Selected. 

When a soul is in perfect harmony with God, all His 
commandments are like a glorious whirlpool, sucking the 
soul down with eager desire to be led in the depth of divine 
union. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

If you want your prayers answered you must obey. — Rev. 
F. E. Marsh. 

It is not enough to keep the commandments of God as 
we already know them, but we must search the Word of 
God diligently to find others, for it is only as we do this 
that we advance Godward. — Frances Ridley Haver gal. 

If we love the Lord we will hasten to walk in the light 
of His love. — Selected. 

God requires instant obedience from us. — Rev. G. P. 
Pardington. 

The true way of Life is always the same — the way of 
God's commandments. — Selected. 

It is not our strength that God wants, but our obedience. — 
Rev. G. P. Pardington. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. l8l 

The healthy soul lives Christ always and is guided and 
controlled by Him, when least conscious of His nearness. — 
Selected. 

In the kingdom of the soul obedience is strength and life, 
and disobedience is weakness and death. — Newell Dwight 
Hillis, D. D. 

He who is conscious of the presence of a Master infinitely 
pure, sins not. — Selected. 

God accepts obedience without emotion, but can not 
accept emotion without obedience. — Christian Standard. 

Perfect obedience is a condition of the full manifestation of 
the spiritual life. — Bishop Thoburn. 

Obedience means marching right on, whether we feel like 
it or not. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

True believers have a love for Jesus that follows Him 
faithfully wherever He leads. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

Do not fear to step where God leads. — Silent Evangelist. 

Faith is made perfect by some test of obedience. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

If at any point we are unable to believe, is is because at 
some other point, we refused to obey. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

We know that we have no right to have a controversy with 
God. We must be in obedience to all the will of God. — Rev. 
J. N. Short. 

Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which 
I say? — Jesus. 

Faith and obedience are the two wings with which the 
soul can mount up unto the very bosom of God. — George 
E. Berg. 

What God tells us we should do, we should do it. — Rev. 
E. F. Walker. 



1 82 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

A coin was lost by a divine accident, but Peter's obedi- 
ence enabled him to pay his taxes. — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 

It is time live hearts began to face the place which the 
providence of God has called them to fill. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

We are always obeying unseen powers (but not unfelt). 
Why not obey the good instead of the bad ? — 5. A. P. 

Put off the yoke that the devil has put upon you, and put 
on the yoke made by the great Yoke-maker of the skies, and 
take a rest. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Close communion is close obedience. — Seed Series No. I. 

Obey the voice of God in the Book, the voice of God in 
your heart, the voice of God as He speaks through circum- 
stances, and His servants obey. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

Only the obedient heart can reach Jesus with the hand of 
faith. — John Butler. 

God must conquer the man that He can trust with His 
great thoughts and plans. — The Silent Evangelist. 

When we believe God and obey Him, we shall speak as 
the Holy Ghost shall lead us. — Rev. C. J. Fowler. 

God will manifest Himself to all who obey Him. — Dr. C. 
J. Fozvler. 

Faith failing there is always a failure in obedience. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

O that professed Christians knew the strength that comes 
from obedience ; how carefully would they walk before God. 
— Christian Witness. 

Obedience is the test of love. — Rev. Harry Jackson. 

It means much to know God's will and then obey it. — M. 
E. Hozvell. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 83 

Do you implicitly and unquestionably obey God? — Colonel 
Brengle. 

True pleasure, profit and honor comes only to the heart 
that loves God and keeps His commandments. — C, O. Moul- 
ton. 

Do all that God wants thee to do. Do just what God 
wants thee to do. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

I prayed and prayed and got nothing; but when I saw 
that I had better stop praying and go to obeying, I got what 
my soul desired. — Colonel Brengle. 

We ought to do well, and with joy and love, the work God 
chose for us to do. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

The only way to fulfil God's plan for our lives and to be 
successful is to do God's commandments. — /. R. Miller, 
D. D. 

If we obey God, He will see that we get through. — L. B. 
McLaughlin. 

What God demands of you, He expects of you. — 5". A. P. 

Obedience to God's command is the gateway to high expe- 
rience and large blessing. — Christian Standard. 

You can never love God till you love Him through obe- 
dience. — Selected. 

Two great requisites needed in a life of obedience are faith 
and love. — Rev. H. W. Westivood. 

What wonderful blessings in store for him whose life is 
one of habitual unquestioning obedience ! — Rev. H. W. 
Westwood. 

How very careful we should be to follow very closely our 
Good Shepherd.— M. E. Howell. 

The Lord will verify His promises to those who are obe- 
dient. — Christian Witness. 



I84 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must be obedient to God every moment, and then He 
can live in us a victorious, triumphant life. — Nellie Acker- 
man. 

We march around Jericho, God levels the walls. — Rev. M. 
W. Knapp. 

A believing, obedient heart walks in the truth as it is un- 
folded to him and advances in Christ. — Rev. Hoffman. 

There were two tables of stone, the first broken by man, 
a type of law being broken by man, as it has always been, 
and always will be, when man by his own will and resolu- 
tion tries to keep it. The second table of stone was un- 
broken, type of the Spirit's power in man to do for him 
what he can not do for himself. — Mrs. G. N. Elridge. 

If we wish to have the power to live free from sin, we 
must wholly submit to Christ. Obey Him implicitly and 
He will furnish the power you lack in fulfilling His com- 
mand. — Christian Witness. 

We must follow God's instructions. He alone can give 
real success and real lasting joy. — Nellie Ackerman. 

The greater the knowledge and consciousness of God's 
divine personality, the less likely we are to disobey Him. — 
Rev. D. Y. Shultz. 

Strength, only and always, comes with the act of obeying. 
— Rev. C. W. L. Christian. 

The Lord will be consulted and served, then our motto 
will be not how to get on, but how to keep in with Him, and 
if we keep in with Him we shall get on with our fellows. — 
Rev. F. E. Marsh. 

We were made, as Scripture tells us, for the Lord Jesus, 
and no one can manage us but the Lord. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Men and women who have stood for God, who have list- 
ened until they have heard His voice and then obeyed, have 
fearlessly faced regiments of devils, and have always been 
preserved until Jesus took them home. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 



OPPORTUNITY. 

To-day comes but once, and never returns. We fancy 
that it will come again to-morrow, but it does not, for it is 
gone with its inexhaustible privileges and responsibilities. — 
Tongues of Fire. 

The meaning of a day; the light of day shines overhead 
that men may work below. — Bishop of Ripon. 

I thank God that there is an open door for the person 
that goes in the name and the power of the Holy Ghost. — 
Rev. Chas. Stalker. 

God laid Lazarus full of sores at the rich man's door, to 
bring him to Himself, but He was not heeded. — S. A. P. 

May the Lord roll upon us a real conviction of the possi- 
bilities that lie within our reach. — Rev. Chas. Stalker. 

We are not only to account for our dollars, but for our 
privileges, to use them for the best investment for God. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The fields are white unto the harvest, and the reapers must 
swiftly follow the sower in the world's great fields of oppor- 
tunity. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

To His professed followers who excuse themselves for 
lack of opportunity, Christ says, " Lift up your eyes and look 
on the fields, for they are white already to harvest." — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 



l86 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

O when shall Zion awake, and see the fulness of her 
blood-bought privileges in Christ Jesus? — David U. Mc- 
Quitty. 

An opportunity for service is an occasion for thanks- 
giving. — Christian Standard. 

Peter denied his Master. John stayed by and received his 
brother's command, and became a second son to the stricken 
mother of Jesus. — M. F. 

We need a revival in which judgment light will shine not 
only on the unsaved, but in which God's people will see 
their duty and realize their opportunity as those that have 
lost sight of the things of time in the light of the coming 
judgment. — Old-Time Religion. 

The will of God be done ; but, O, the unspeakable loss for 
us if we have missed our opportunity of doing it. — Brooke- 
foss Westcott. 



PARDON. 



The word " forgiveness " means to bear away. — Rev. J. H. 
Flower. 

Christ comes to every one of us in our sin and sorrow, and 
offers forgiveness and peace. — David D. Thompson. 

It is a magnificent thing to know our sins all forgiven. — 
Dr. Bresee. 



PATIENCE. 

The Lord gives us patience when we are converted ; but 
when we are sanctified, He gives us perfect patience. — Rev. 
John Pennin eton. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 87 

To please God you must learn to suffer and hold your 
tongue. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Patience is the crowning grace of a Christian life.— Rev. 
M. W. Knapp. 

By the grace of God I will never fret ; I repine at nothing ; 
I am discontented with nothing. — John Wesley. 

Silence under suffering is the sublimity of salvation. — 
Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

God is so patient with us, and we need to learn patience 
with ourselves. — Selected. 

God never leads people to fret and worry. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

Let us learn the lesson of patience, for God uses imperfect 
material, and patiently waits until it is trained. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

When we are tried or under provocation, and are patient, 
then others will see it is possible to bear the fruit of the 
Spirit. — Mrs. Lamson. 

The book of Job is an object lesson. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

A sanctified heart will understand that book of Job, and 
nobody else can. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Bear with each other — get grace for it. To have a cat- 
style of hump on our back, and to siss when others err, Is 
neither charming nor edifying. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

Long-suffering is love on trial. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 

To be silent, to suffer, to pray when we can not act is 
acceptable to God. — Robert Collyer. 

Long-suffering power is so very noticeable, because it is 
so scarce. — Selected. 

One of the sweetest virtues that adorn the Christian life 
is patience. — Mrs. E. E. Williams. 



1 88 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is a great art in the Christian life, to learn to be silent ; 
under oppositions, rebukes, injuries, still to be silent. — T. C. 
Upham. 

We need to learn to wait for God. — Rev. J. R. Miller. 

It is only as we are able to compel our opponent, and do 
not, that we are to be credited with Christian patience. — 
John Lindsay Withro. 

The child of God suffers in a different spirit when he has 
the fulness of the Spirit, from what he does without it. — 
Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 



PEACE. 



We must know peace before we can minister to those who 
long for it. — Selected. 

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not. — 
Thomas a Kempis. 

True peace is in the possession of the favor of God. — 
Fenelon. 

Peace is the climate in which the Christian lives. — Se- 
lected. 

I have that sweet peace that the Bible speaks of, that 
passes all mis-understanding. — A colored sister. 

The true saint makes peace and quietness a study. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to 
make peace among others. — Thomas a Kempis. 

We must have peace with God before we can enjoy the 
peace of God. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 89 

Peace is the sentinel of the soul, which keeps the heart 
and the mind of the Christian through Christ Jesus. — Bishop 
Huntington. 

The interior life is the beginning of the blessed peace of 
the saints who eternally cry, Amen, Amen. — Rev. James 
Mudge, D. D. 

Pray much, and He who has promised will keep in perfect 
peace. — God's Revivalist. 

The secret of peace is prayer. — The Christian. 

Ecstatic joy is like the tides of the ocean, sometimes full 
and sometimes at the ebb. But peace is continuous in its 
flow. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

We must have our minds stayed on the Lord and not on 
others, in order to have perfect peace. — /. N. Goddard. 

With Christ, came peace. — Bishop Simpson. 

Peace is a settled, undisturbed rest in the soul, which can 
only be placed there by God. — /. N. Goddard. 

To follow peace means that we practise peace with all 
men. — Rev. L. C. Pettit. 

Do not lose inward peace for anything whatsoever, even 
if your whole world seem upset. — Francis De Sales. 

" The peace of God is deeper than the troubles of life." — 
Christian Witness. 

To live a peaceful life we must constantly be seeking 
peace. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Peace is the characteristic of the Christian. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

The way to have perfect peace is to have your eyes on 
Jesus. — Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

When justified by faith, you will have peace with God, and 
know it. — Nettie Peabody. 



190 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The universal cry of our humanity for peace finds its an- 
swer in acquaintanceship with Jesus. — Rev. Charles N. Crit- 
tendon. 

There are Enochs, Jobs, and Pauls in this dispensation 
who find the things which belong to their peace. — Rev. C. 

0. Monlton. 

God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, thus 
making peace. The peace-making is still going on. — Rev. 
Henry Varley. 

Peace is one of the great words of the Bible. — Selected. 

Christ has put a deposit of peace in my soul. — Dr. C. J. 
Fotvler. 

We can not worry when we know we are right in God. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

God always brings us by a Avay in which we are in har- 
mony with ourselves. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The man who has learned to mount up with wings as an 
eagle enters into a great quietness. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Peace flows from righteousness, like water in a river bed. 
— Selected. 

Every true believer is at peace with God. — C. H. U'cthcr- 
bee. 

If we live right there will come a comfort into our lives 
that can not be bought with gold, and in poverty God will 
sustain us. — M. lacobcy. 

God saves His people from all anxious care and worry 
and fret, and puts a peace and quietness in the soul that 
enables them to rejoice evermore. — Mary IV. Chapman. 

Even on the cross Christ's peace was not broken. This 
peace He gives to His friends, if they will receive it. — Dr. 

1. R. Miller. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 191 

There is peace with God which comes to all who receive 
forgiveness. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

The secret of a quiet heart is to keep ever near God. — Alex. 
McLaren. 

O that many would taste and prove for themselves the 
peace and happiness of serving Christ. — A. Burlton. 

God ha& said our peace should be as a river; not as a 
mountain stream, that in summer may dry up, but like a 
river deep and constant in its flow, that enriches everything 
it comes in contact with. This peace may be had by every 
Christian. — Dr. Levy. 



PENTECOST. 

Well for us all if we wait in prayer and supplication until 
the day of Pentecost is " fully come." The fulness of wait- 
ing will surely bring the fulness of the blessing. — Rev. B. 
Carradine. 

God give us grace to receive our Pentecost, and fulfil our 
testimony. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The weakness of the world must give way to Pentecostal 
fire. — Rev. Diverty. 

The measure of a power and blessing which sufficed for 
Jesus at Jordan was abundantly sufficient for the one hun- 
dred and twenty at Pentecost, and will meet all our wants. 
— Bishop Thoburn. 

Pentecost is not only power, it is knowledge; not only 
fire, but wisdom. — Rev, Joseph H. Smith. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



PERFECTION. 



The ultimate destiny of man is perfection. — Rev. J. Mur- 
ray Taylor. 

The consciousness of a perfect heart gives wonderful 
power in prayer. — Murray. 

Wholly for God, is the keynote of perfection. — Murray. 

In only three things is the child of God expected to be per- 
fect, obedience, faith, and love. — Rev. E. S. Dunham. 



PERFECT LOVE. 

Perfect love is exceedingly keen in its perception and 
quick in its senses to discern anything inconsistent. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

I love the Lord of perfect love. — Mr. Weidham. 

When we are converted we get love, but we do not get this 
perfect love till we give ourselves wholly and forever to 
God, and are entirely sanctified. — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

Nothing shows the experience of perfect love more clearly 
than our treatment of mankind. — The Pentecostal Era. 

The way of perfect love is the finest road you ever trav- 
eled. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Perfect love, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, de- 
stroys the sinful self that is in you, and enables you to have 
the mastery over yourself. — Rev. H. G. S cuddy. 

It is wonderful with what ease you may accomplish self- 
control after you have been made perfect in love. — Rev. H. 
G. Scuddy. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 93 

To exercise one's own gifts without eclipsing another's 
is one of the fine acts of perfect love. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

If a heart is filled with perfect love there will be no envy, 
jealousy, strife, or division. " Love is the fulfilling of the 
law." " Love beareth all things." " Love suffereth long, 
and is kind." " Love thinketh no evil." — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Perfect love casts out all fear, because " love " is the 
most fearless thing in the universe. — Selected. 

Every genuine Christian is a candidate for perfect love, if 
he perseveringly seeks it. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

There is nothing selfish in perfect love. — N. Ackerman. 

Perfect love rectifies the brain. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Perfect love is given when there is a complete yielding 
of ourselves to God. — The Silent Evangelist. 

No spirit touched with the love of God is content with any 
hope lower than a perfect love ; nor can we believe that the 
Spirit kindles this hope in vain. — Dr. Daniel Steele, D. D. 

When self is crucified, love that "seeketh not her own," 
reigns in the heart. — God's Revivalist. 



PERSECUTION. 

Reproaches for Christ's sake are a joy, they are glorious. 
— -Rev. Compton. 

Take the whole reproach of Christ, and you will get the 
whole glory of God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Opposition or persecution should not embitter us. Do we 
pray for our enemies ? — Rev. G. P. Pardington, Ph. D. 
13 



194 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Rejection by man is often proof of acceptance with God. — 
Rev. George P. Pardington. 

If we were called to suffer more for our faith, we would 
be worth more to the world. — Christian Uplook. 

An innocent man can afford to suffer wrong, if he has 
firm faith in God. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

If we live close to God we will be misunderstood, misrep- 
resented, sneered at, and many times counted inconsistent 
by the world; but if God approves of us, if He counts us 
faithful, that is sufficient. — Nettie Peabody. 



PERSEVERANCE. 

Lord, perfect that that thou hast begun in me, that I may 
not suffer shipwreck when I am almost in Heaven. — Beaa. 

God wants to give us staying qualities. He wants to put 
into us something that will make us stand when other people 
fall. — Rev. Pennington. 

" Once in grace always in grace," if we " continue " in 
grace. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Everything that is of value in the world has come from 
the confidence of some great soul who pressed on till triumph 
was achieved and the efforts crowned with success. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

A Christian life seems often disturbed by life's experiences, 
but down beneath the reach of human eye is the eternal 
peace and the steady moving purpose. — Rev. Clarence A. 
Vincent, D. D. 

When you lack the faith of assurance, live by the faith 
of adherence. — Christian Standard. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 95 

It is amazing what God will do with a soul, and through 
a soul, that will plod on with persistent patience and prayer 
against a thousand difficulties and seeming impossibilities. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Lord wants a great family of " Hold-ons " and 
" Hold-fasts."— Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

It pays to hold on to God. — Mr. Bailey. 

Let us be true to the purpose of faith, steadfast in the prov- 
ing of faith, and we shall receive all the fulness of His will 
for us, and all the glory of His great salvation. — Ensign 
Carl Cooper. 



POWER. 



When the enemy meets us at the threshold of any great 
work for God, let us accept is as a " token of salvation," 
and claim double victory and power. Power is developed 
by resistance. — Selected. 

What God demands I shall be, I can be; and what He 
requires me to do, I can do. — Rev. C. W. L. Christian. 

We do not need so much " power for service " as power 
to be. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

If you want apostolic power you must pay apostolic prices. 
— Rev. Jones. 

God develops spiritual power in our lives through pressure 
of hard places. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

If you mind earthly things you will lose spiritual power. 
> — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Link yourself to God's great sufficiency, and the power 
of God will flow through you. — Reeder Harris {England). 

Piety is power. — Rev. Thedore L. Cuyler. 



196 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Jesus is in the heart of eternity, and this little heart of 
mine, so frail and feeble, is enriched in Deity, and I can do 
all things through Christ which strengthened me. — Rev. 
Campbell Morgan. 

A man with a deep religious experience is compelled to 
have spiritual power. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

You take good care to keep quiet at the feet of Jesus. O, 
the richness and power there is in it. — Deacon Morse. 

A rod with God behind it is mightier than a vast army. — 
F. B. Meyer. 

Simple men can do great things if they have the Spirit- 
filled life. — Selected. 

Our power in the spiritual world is in proportion to our 
crucifixion and suffering with Christ. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God's power is not in reservoirs, but only needs a clear 
channel through which it can flow. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

When God enters your life, points out to you your duty, 
calls you to your mission, lays on you your burden, crowns 
you with suffering, He stands at your side and says to you, 
'* Together you and I can." " I can do all things through 
Christ which strengthened me." — Lyman Abbott. 

A personal knowledge of God will make us mighty. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

The mighty power of our risen Lord is ours through pre- 
vailing prayer and faith. — Mrs. Hattie Livingston. 

A true child of God will carry power that illuminates and 
convicts. — Dr. Morrison. 

Just so surely as you receive the baptism of the Holy 
Ghost, will you receive power for service in that sphere to 
which God has called you. — Way of Faith. 

Power is born in the closet. — God's Revivalist. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 1 97 

Every willing man has the promise of power. — vS\ D. 
Gordon. 

Lack of power comes from lack of prayer. — >S. S. Lesson 
Illustrator. 

You desire power, you do well. In so far you are at one 
with God. His desire to give you power is greater than 
yours to receive it. — The Helper. 

God's commands are God's enablings ; the One who sends 
you will see that you are enabled to do the good. — Grace 
Weiser Davis. 

God's power you crave is twofold, power in you and power 
with you. — The Helper. 

If we care to witness a display of God's power, we must 
get back to apostolic simplicity. — God's Revivalist. 

If you walk closely with God and do not waste the forces 
of your nature, you shall have power with God, and shall 
win souls to Christ. — Rev. John Short. 

If we would be a powerful people we must be a clean 
people. — God's Revivalist. 

Nothing on earth gives such spiritual power to a soul as 
suffering for Jesus, and with Jesus. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

I am more and more impressed with the all important fact 
that the presence and possession of the Holy Ghost is the 
only guarantee of the power adequate to the emergencies of 
the times. — W. M. C. Evangelist. 

What we want is centralizing power everywhere, but we 
must get acquainted with the man at the power house. We 
need God. — Rev. F. Doty. 

Power, understanding power, will be yours that you never 
dreamed of, when you learn the secret of spiritual swim- 
ming. — Rev. Henry Wilson. 



1 98 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The spirit of prayer is the motor power for God's work. — 
Selected. 

If we are true to God He will give us power to bring 
things to pass. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

God is calling for those who have no might nor power, but 
yearn to be filled with His power for service. — Silent Evan- 
gelist. 

God can make you a powerhouse, from which you shall 
send forth divine power to bless the church and the world. — 
Rev. Ward {of India). 

The secret of one's greatness is his deep spiritual power. — 
Selected. 

We can walk with God and hold on to Him until we can 
challenge the world, the church, and the worst community. 
— Rev. Morrison. 

The man who is where he should be spiritually will have 
all the power God wants him to have. — Christian Witness. 

It is not our words, but the power of the Holy Ghost 
through us, that can reach hearts. — Mary W. Chapman. 

We must have power with God first, and then we will have 
it with others. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The mere touch of God is more than the continued force 
and artillery of men. — Rev. E. P. Knight. 

Strong action can issue only from strong faith. Only out 
of certainty comes power. — Brooks. 

Forever let " can't " drop out of the Christian's vocabulary, 
inasmuch as two great divine facts always stand for victory 
in this life, viz., "All things are possible with God," and 
"All things are possible to him that believeth." This gives 
him an unlimited and never-failing backing. — Silent Evan- 
gelist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



PRAISE. 

Don't disappoint God; sing your song and offer your 
praise. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

If we would praise more, we should have more to praise 
for. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The real Christian is an everlasting giver of thanks. — 
Christian Witness. 

I have a settled hallelujah in my soul. — F. I. Thornton. 

Jesus wants us all to sing His praises. If one child is not 
singing He knows it. — Selected. 

A consistent life, a steadfast faith, a victorious experience 
of the saving power of Christ will give you a right to shout 
the praise of God here in this world. — Selected. 

O for a gust of praise to go to the ends of the earth ! — 
Fletcher. 

Would you defeat the devil at every point, keep under the 
blood and your heart fresh with praises. — The Silent Evan- 
gelist. 

God loves to be praised when people really mean it. — The 
Baptist Teacher. 

When prayer blossoms, it is praise. — Way of Faith. 

God has blessed me all my life long, and redeemed me 
from all evil, and I pray that He may be your God. — Rev. 
C. H. Spurgeon. 

Prayer and praise would accomplish wonders in overcom- 
ing the greatest and the smallest worries of life. — Living 
Words. 

When every other way of escape from temptation seems 
closed, try the gate of praise. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



200 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Constant prayer and ceaseless praise are Canaan laws to 
which we must pay daily tribute if we would eat the fruits of 
the land. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The people who are afraid to praise God are getting 
away from God. — Rev. Parsells. 

The spirit of complaint should be wholly banished and 
praise should fill the soul. — Mrs. May Anderson Hawkins. 

Praise is contentment rippling over into gladness, like the 
music of the brook. — Mark Guy Pearse. 

The Bible itself is largely made up of hymns. In His last 
night, Christ sang them. (Ps. 113-117.) — Bishop H. W. 
Warren. 

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us 
so much to be thankful for, that we need never cease our 
singing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 

None too often do we begin our week with notes of praise. 

— Selected. 

Thanksgiving inflames and strengthens love for God in 
our souls. — Christian Witness. 

Prayer is the language of earth, while praise is the lan- 
guage of heaven. — Selected. 

When I am too sad to pray then I begin to sing. — Martin 
Luther. 

A great proportion of our prayer should be praise to God. 

— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We are all the Lord has to praise Him down here. — Rev. 
G. A. McLaughlin. 

Joy and song betoken royal kinship. — Rev. Newell D wight 
Hillis. 

The heart songs of the world are born of the great hopes 
of the gospel.— Rev. P. H. Swift, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 201 

When we get a glimpse of the great goodness of God and 
His wondrous love, we want some others to assist in sound- 
ing His praises. — Maggie L. Vail. 

Only those who have struck the deepest note of penitence 
can reach the highest note of praise. — A. J. Gordon. 

It refreshes and expands the soul to enumerate the past 
goodness of God. — Christian Witness. 

Thanksgiving recounts what God has done; supplication 
anticipates what God will do. — Rev. T. C. Reade. 

How wonderful it is to have a truly thankful heart, so 
that one sees a cause for praise to God whatever may come. 
God's Revivalist. 

Every day ought to be a thanksgiving day, and will be 
to every Christian. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Men forget to be thankful to God for common mercies. 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The moment we lose out of us the sublime art of praise, 
we need to look for it anew. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 



PRAYER. 



Take a few moments, even in the busy hours, to wait on 
God. — God's Revivalist. 

The whole secret of a Christian life is waiting upon God 
in a secret place. — C. H. Kern. 

Prayer will prevail, when we prepare the way for it. — 
Selected. 

Perhaps nothing proves so certainly how we are related 
to the unseen world as our prayers. — Dr. Manning. 



202 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Jesus teaches us how to pray and how to get our answers. 
—Rev. G. D. Watson. 

" Believe that ye have received and ye shall have." Be- 
tween the " have received " in heaven, and the " shall have " 
of earth, " believe." Believing praise and prayer are the link. 

— Murray. 

The men whom God uses most, are men of secret prayer. 

— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Let us pray, brethren, lest we faint by the way. — Rev. M. 
M. Bales. 

Prayer is the rope up in the belfry. We pull it, and it 
rings the bell up in heaven. — Christmas Evans. 

Think not the fruit of your prayers depends on the length 
of them. — John Wesley. 

He prayeth well who loveth well. — Wadsworth. 

As we give ourselves to walk with God, we shall learn to 
pray. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Prayer brings Christ into our life. — Selected. 

A praying man can never be a useless man. — Selected. 

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish and 
leave it or merge it into God's will. — F. W. Robertson. 

Not gifts but graces prevail in prayer. — Selected. 

The law of prayer is the law of destiny. — Selected. 

We may not all be called to do great things, but we may 
all be mighty in prayer, and prayer life is the greatest life. 
It touches the eternal throne. — Hattic Livingston. 

More things are wrought by prayer than this world 
dreams of. — Tennyson. 

Faith is so wholly the work of God's Spirit, through His 
Word in the prepared heart, that it is impossible that the 
answer should not come. — Murray. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 203 

We are to learn that if God does not answer our prayer im- 
mediately it is no indication of His displeasure. — Rev. H. C. 
Morrison. 

God lives to answer prayer. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God answers our prayers not in accordance with what we 
say, but in accordance with what we mean. — Christian Wit- 
ness. 

Prayer is a true wish sent Godward. — Phillips Brooks. 

Great are the promises ! Great are the possibilities of 
prayer! Who has measured their heights or sounded their 
depths? Has any soul wrestling with God, in the Holy 
Ghost, for the salvation of others, come to the point where 
God said: Thus far shalt thou go and no farther?— - Old- 
Time Religion. 

It is in the personal presence of the Saviour, in intercourse 
with Him, that faith rises to grasp what at first sight 
appeared too high. It is in prayer that we hold up our 
desire in the light of God's holy will, that our motives are 
tested, and proof given whether we ask indeed in the Name 
of Jesus, and only for the glory of God. — Murray. 

Let us learn how to be still, and look up reverently into 
God's face, and wait for the motions of His life. — Rev. M. 
M. Bales. 

Our prayer may fail, but the God of prayer will not. — 
Christian Standard. 

Persistent, believing prayer is always answered. — C. E. H. 

On our knees is where we learn the heart life of Jesus. — 
God's Revivalist. 

"And ye shall have them." Mark 1 1 : 24. That is, the 
gift which we first hold in faith, as bestowed upon us in 
heaven, will also become ours in experience. — Murray. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



The heavier are your prayers, the lighter are your cares. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God lades the wings of private prayer with the sweetest, 
choicest and chiefest blessings. — Dean Stanley. 

It is God's plan to give to every one that asketh. — New 
York Observer. 

If courage and faith fail not, God will find a way to answer 
prayer. — Rev. S. B. Shaiv. 

Successful prayer reaches the heart. It clarifies the vision 
and purifies the motive. — Selected. 

He who would be alive to God and work out his salvation 
with fear and trembling, and have an abundant entrance 
into the heavenly kingdom must pray much, and learn to get 
much out of his prayers. — Rev. C. C. Carey. 

Prayer is a great heart searcher. — Rev. C. J. Foivler. 

The language of a sincere heart is what God honors. — 
Mrs. Pearl Shepherd. 

Prayer is the highest exercise of the human intellect. — 
Christian Standard. 

You will pray, if you love God. — Rev. Glascock. 

Prevailing prayer will bring a revival in any community. 
It can not always be done in a day or a week or perhaps 
not in a month or a year, but it can be done. The battle 
with the powers of darkness may be long and hard but the 
victory is possible. — Old-Time Religion. 

If you pray for people, you will get an interest in them. — 
Evangelist Glascock. 

It is through love for us that God puts a prayer upon us, 
and then delights to answer it. — Nellie Peabody. 

The Spirit of God is the Spirit of prayer. — Rev. J. Clap- 
pern Graves. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 205 

One of the mightiest influences which leads Godward and 
heavenward is the prayer of faith. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

We need more prayer to help us to be, than to help us to 
act. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

O, it is wonderful when we think how the Lord has 
promised to work when we pray. — Sister Duff, Matron Hope 
Cottage, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Nobody honors man as His creator does; and nobody 
pays such loving attention to our choices and desires as 
our God does. — Rev . G. D. Watson. 

We never are really men of prayer, in the best sense, until 
filled with the Holy Ghost.— Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 

When we go to God in the intensity of faith and say, " Be 
pleased to give me this, Lord, I plead with Thee," He will 
honor our earnestness. — Rev. F. D. Marsh. 

He who waits to pray, or loses heart in prayer, because 
he does not yet feel the faith needed to get the answer, will 
never learn to believe. — Murray. 

If you never pray except when you feel like it, you will 
never grow in grace. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Prayer is an experience as well as an exercise. There is a 
Spirit of prayer. — Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 

There is a place where you can get, there is a place where 
God can put you, where heaven will open every time you 
cry. — Rev. Compton. 

Some people rush to their knees without taking time to 
read the Bible, thereby losing the most effective preparation 
for prevailing prayer. — Selected. 

It is a fact worthy of notice that Jesus never taught His 
disciples to preach, but He taught them how to pray. — 
Christian Witness. 



2o6 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

All true prayer is prompted by the Holy Spirit through 
faith in the blood of Christ. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Prayer is the Christian's vital breath. — James Mont- 
gomery. 

God is definite, and if we are definite, God will bless us. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

It is prayer that supports the soul that is weak. — 
Selected. 

It is often better to pray for those who are mistaken than 
to dispute with them. — Christian Witness. 

Prayer is the secret of imparted power from God and 
nothing else can take its place. — Arthur T. Pierson, D. D. 

The most humble Christian can live such a life in the 
ministry of prayer as to touch every nation. — M attic Perry. 

I would rather know how to pray like Daniel than to preach 
like Gabriel. — D. L. Moody. 

Almost everybody professes to pray at times, but many 
never profess to pray only in times of great danger. — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 

Prayer is one of the most important factors in Christian 
experience. It enters into the very warp and woof of 
Christian character and progressive religious life. — Rev. J. 
M. Pike. 

The heart in which the true love of God and true desire 
exists, never ceases to pray. — Fcnclon. 

The blood makes us worthy and the Spirit makes us fit 
to pray acceptably. — George E. Berg. 

God loves to hear the loud outcries of needy souls. — 
Spurgeon. 

Love hid in the bottom of the soul prays without ceasing 
even when the mind is drawn another wav. — Fcnclon. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 207 

God always gives in the light of His larger wisdom of our 
needs and in accordance with His supreme desire to make 
us what we ought to be. — Northwestern Advocate. 

If we only take our little worries to God, all will be clear. — 
Selected. 

May the prayer passion lay hold of souls in every land 
and may the thrones and principalities of the nations be 
stormed and broken to pieces by the majesty of our Lord 
Jesus Christ.— //. C. Waddell. 

Secret prayer can not be fruitless. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God is bringing some of us to our knees, by the weight He 
lets us carry. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Prayer is not only a great help to the work but a great 
safeguard against temptation. — Christian Witness. 

No minister is fit for the pastorate until he has the true 
spirit of prayer. — Selected. 

The people who pray in secret, are ready to pray in public. 
— C. H. Kern. 

To pray is to live ; not to pray is not to live, it is simply 
to exist. — Selected. 

It is mighty praying which brings almighty spiritual 
results. — Triumphs of Faith. 

We gain something every time we go to Jesus. — Rev. E. I. 
D. Pepper. 

Prayer is a preventative for backsliding. — C. H. Kern. 

Without a praying heart, we are as weak as weakness 
itself. — Christian Standard. 

Prayer is that which prepares the ground for showers of 
blessings. — Rev. R. W. Colquhour, M. A. 

The deeper you pray, the stronger you stay. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 



2o8 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Broken-hearted prayers, like broken clouds, bring showers 
of blessing. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Prayer will keep you on believing grounds. — C. H. Kern. 

What a breath of peace cools the forehead of a man who 
remembers that he may pray, and that prayer is heard in 
heaven. — Chimes. 

If conditions are met, God will as assuredly deliver His 
church and people from their enemies in answer to prayer, 
as He did Israel in the olden time. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Prayer is the offering up of our desire to God. — Christian 
Witness. 

It is in prayer that Jesus teaches and inspires faith. — 
Murray. 

When you feel the Lord pulling softly at the strings of 
your heart to draw you away to secret prayer, go, and He 
will bless you in a way that you will never get over in this 
world or that which is to come. — Lieut. Col. S. L. Brcngle. 

In our prayers the interests of God's kingdom come first ; 
then follow one's needs. Let us not invert this order. — Rev. 
George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

The highest prayer is the prayer of unselfish love. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

When you pray much, you will hear from heaven. — S. 
A. P. 

When you pray, believe in your case. — New Voice. 

Prayer moves God because it introduces a new element into 
every case where it enters. — Rev. Dan. B. Brummitt. 

May we know the throne of grace as a refuge and as the 
center of our supreme delight; may we tarry there without 
weariness and look upon Thy face without fear. — North- 
zvcstern Christian Advocate. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 209 

Resist the devil by praying. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

There is no soul living so close to God but what he needs 
the prayers and the holy encouragement of God's saints. — 
Rev. Mary Storey. 

Secret prayer is the most important of the prayer life. It 
is prayer at its best. — /. H. Stumpf. 

Prayer is one of the things we may do without, if we are 
satisfied to live as the beasts of the field. — Rev. Dan. B. 
Brummitt. 

Carefully maintain private prayer. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Prayer is the lever that moves the arm of God. — Rev. E. A. 
Verger son. 

Prayer is a lever with which to move the world ; live with 
your hand on the lever. — E. M. C. 

Character as God sees it, gives quality to prayer. — Bishop 
Taylor. 

The Holy Ghost will groan for souls, and reach souls 
through our hearts, when we give ourselves to prayer. — Rev. 
Ira E. David. 

Praying will make us cease from sinning, or sinning will 
make us cease to pray. — Rev. F. E. Marsh. 

Our prayers and worship should be ascribed to God alone. 
— Nettie Peabody. 

There are four elements in prayer — thanksgiving, peti- 
tion, faith, or reception, followed by thanksgiving. — Nettie 
Peabody. 

There is nothing which helps the mind to be more clear, 
nothing helps in anything one has to do, more than com- 
munion with God. — /. Hudson Taylor. 

God's past goodness is the best warrant for perseverance 
in prayer. — Rev. Dan. B. Brummitt. 
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2IO SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When we least feel like praying is the time when we need 
most to pray. — /. H. Stumpf. 

If you pray till you weep, the thirsty plants of grace will 
grow in your heart. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The man who successfully prays must be a man who 
abides in God and in whom God abides. — Pentecostal Era. 

God's power and willingness to save in spite of great 
obstacles is clearly pictured in the thirty-sixth chapter of 
Ezekiel. The absolutely necessary condition on the human 
side, in the beginning, is shown to be not that conditions 
should be favorable, but that there should be some hearts so 
given up to God that the Holy Ghost can use them in prayer 
and intercession, strong, constant, and persistent. — Rev. S. 
B. Shaw. 

Faith is the pledge and forerunner of the coming answer. 
— Murray. 

Learning to wait on God for the unfolding of His will. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Let us pray for a daily thankful heart. It is a spirit which 
God loves and delights to honor. — Dr. A. Kevin. 

Abraham was a man who was right with God, and as he 
stood and pleaded on behalf of Sodom, God granted every 
request that he made. — Rev. F. E. Marsh. 

Pour out your heart to God in prayer, and heaven will 
answer and satisfy you. — JoJm Butler. 

Our boldness for God before the world must always be 
the result of individual dealing with God in secret. — White- 
field. 

It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfillment, 
the kingdom for its coming, and the glory of God for its 
full revelation. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 211 

The prayer room is the place to hang the church ther- 
mometer. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

Live what thou commandest, and then command what thou 
wilt. — Augustine. 

The sweetness of prayer is knowing that we are heard. — 
E. H. C. 

God has placed Himself and His resources behind the one 
who prays according to His will. — Rev. H. B. Hosley. 

Let us advance on our knees. — Joseph Hardie Neesima. 

I have been helped by praying for others ; for by making 
an errand for them, I have gotten something for myself. — 
Samuel Rutherford. 

From a great God we ask great things, through a great 
sacrifice. — Dr. Parker. 

If I have not the spirit of prayer I can do nothing ; I must 
be in a prayerful frame of mind continually, asking God for 
the spirit of grace and supplication. — Rev. Finney. 

There is a great need of being definite in prayer, if we 
would receive the answer to our petitions. — Mrs. Carrie 
Judd Montgomery. 

If we really learn how to pray and live, we can lay hold 
on God and change things down here. — Rev. H. C. 
Morrison. 

God's school of prayer has its primary department. It 
also has its university course. — Rev. Helm. 

Desire a thing, pray for a thing, and take what you ask 
for and it will be made real to you. — Rev. F. W. Cox. 

It will pay to cut down anywhere else, rather than in 
the time we devote to prayer. — /. H. Stumpf. 

The Christian's armor will rust, except it be burnished 
with the oil of prayer. — Christian Witness. 



212 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

How many Christians have consecration complete enough, 
and experience deep enough, and faith strong enough, to 
stand in the gap with Abraham, with Moses, with Samuel, 
with Elijah, with Jeremiah, and with Paul, and wrestle 
with God for the true prosperity of Zion? — Rev. S. B. 
Shazv. 

Prayer not only puts us in touch with God and gives us 
knowledge of Him and His ways, but imparts to us His 
power. — A. T. Pierson. 

They stand in His presence who pray without ceasing. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

It is in prayer that we wait for the leading of the Spirit, 
to show us whether we are asking the right thing and in the 
right spirit. — Murray. 

Prayer is most powerful, indeed all powerful, because it 
calls out God's power. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Prayer and trust are two of the sweetest things in this 
life. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

The lower we bow, the higher our prayers will rise. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

When we call upon God in our distress, we sometimes 
think He ought to leave the universe to attend to us, but 
Pie can afford to wait ; and we can afford to let Him. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

No one when he comes to die will regret that he has 
prayed too much. — Selected. 

The more we pray, the less trouble we will have; for 
prayer brings the sunshine of gladness into our hearts. — 6". 

Live as a child of God, then you will be able to pray as 
a child, and as a child you will most assuredly be heard. — 
Rev. Andrew Murray. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 213 

When the people agonize in prayer, God answers by fire. — 
Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

All true prayer implies an agreement with God. — Rev. 
J. N. Short. 

Prayer is the key of the day and the lock of the night. — 
Berkley. 

It is in the closet that we are fitted to be mouthpieces for 
God. — God's Revivalist. 

The one who obtains the thought of God in prayer has 
behind him the power of all the nations of the earth com- 
bined. — Editor Pentecostal Era. 

After we live a holy life, we learn to ask God for just 
what we want. — /. W. S. 

It is in prayer that we become conscious of our lack of 
faith, that we are led to say to the Father that we do believe, 
and that we prove the reality of our faith by the confidence 
with which we persevere. — Murray. 

God answers the honest heart according to what it needs, 
more than what it asks for. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

No person ever yet fell into sin that was much in prayer. — 
Rev. Chas. Dane. 

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach ; only how 
to pray. — Rev. Andrezv Murray. 

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words 
than words without heart, and remember emphatically that 
either prayer will make thee cease from sin or sin will 
certainly entice thee from prayer. — John Bunyan. 

If prayer can keep us from sinning one day it can do so 
every day in the year. — Amelia Stezvart. 

It is one of the terrible marks of the diseased state of the 
Christian life in these days, that there are so many that 



214 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

rest content without the distinct experience of answers to 
prayer. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Whatever else I do, I must pray, pray, pray. — /. H. 
Stumpf. 

The secret of Daniel's continence was, he took pains to 
keep up intercourse with God. — Moulc. 

We want to get in close grip with God. — Way of Faith. 

Work done without prayer, is work done without God. — 
The Silent Evangelist. 

There is a joy in receiving, but that is preceded, and 
sometimes exceeded, by the joy of asking. — C. R. C. 
MacGregor. 

Hem the day with a stout seam of prayer, so that it will 
not ravel out. — Theodore R. Cuyler, D. D. 

What the gulf stream is to the ocean, prayer is to the 
Christian. — Way of Faith. 

Let us always pray to the end ; for God is working out 
the answer, and when it comes how sad if we should have 
given up and not be there to claim it. — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 

The best of preachers feel their own need of the prayers 
of God's people. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

People like to join the chorus and hear the shout of joy, 
but very few people have a burden for lost souls. — Rev. 
Mrs. M. J. Harris. 

I have so much to do that I must have three hours of 
prayer every day. — Martin Luther. 

Prayer is the human's instrument to open heaven's door. — 
/. W. S. 

The best thoughts come to us while we are on our 
knees. — God's Revivalist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 215 

Prayer is the fortress of the church. — -Rev. Parsells. 

He that saveth his time from prayer shall lose it, and he 
that loseth his time for communion with God shall find it 
again in added blessing and power and fruitfulness. — /. H. 
Stumpf. 

Let our prayers be the key that opens the day and the lock 
that shuts the night and also from morning to night our 
staff and stay in all our labors, enabling us to go cheerfully 
up to the mount of God. — Canon Farrar. 

Prayer sweetly soothes the soul. — Sunday School Times. 

Beloved saints of God, are our ears closed to the call of 
the Spirit to a life of fellowship with our Lord in inter- 
cessory prayer? — Mrs. Hattie Livingston. 

There is nothing too difficult for prayer to ask in Jesus' 
name for the Father's glory. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

See to it that every day before you look upon the face of 
man, you look into the face of your Lord. — Rev. G. Camp- 
bell Morgan. 

Even when our troubles are our own fault and have come 
to us through folly or disobedience, even then it is not too 
late to pray. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Prayer brings us to the very gates of heaven. — Selected. 

All true prayer becomes praise when it reaches its fulness. 
—Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

It is the habit of sincere prayer that keeps the soul in 
fellowship with Christ, and shining with the reflection of 
His glory. — Southwestern Christian Advocate. 

I have been driven many times to my knees by the over- 
whelming conviction that I had no other place to go. — 
Abraham Lincoln. 

Pray hardest, when it is hardest to pray. — Brent. 



2l6 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God must answer true real prayer. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Prayer leads us to realize that we are dependent upon 
God. — Christian Witness. 

Let us ever be asking from God, who is ever giving and is 
ever willing to give. — Christian Witness. 

Prayer is the means appointed for giving us things we 
need. — Christian Witness. 

Prayer is the mainspring of all spiritual life : if this is 
weak the entire life will be correspondingly so. We can not 
hope to see success except we are much in prayer. — U. S. 
Ferguson. 

Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but laying hold 
upon God's willingness. — Bishop Brooks. 

Blessed be God, that I may pray. — David Brainard. 

God can and will, in answer to prayer, work mightily 
upon human hearts and hear and answer the weakest 
longing of a human soul after Himself. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Many of us fail to receive our heart's desire, because we 
fail to continue in importuning prayer. — Mrs. Hattie 
Livingston. 

Scripturally speaking, prayer is the key to heaven's 
treasury department. — Editor Pentecostal Era. 

The heart is enlarged to take in the whole world, and 
prayer girdles the globe. — D. Y. Schultz. 

God loves an unselfish prayer. — D. J. Biirrell. 

Prayer is often hard because we put God so far away and 
we are oppressed by our own weakness. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

Real spiritual life is largely sustained by prayer, and the 
absence of prayer must drain it. — Rev. M. L. Haney, 

May we ever relish secret prayer. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 217 

Be ye definite in your appeals to God. See clearly what 
it is you want, and ask for it. — Baptist Union. 

We should never cease to pray for our friends. — 
Selected. 

O, the victories of prayer! They are the mountain tops 
of the Bible. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man 
or woman in this world, is the talent of prayer. — A. L. X. 
Whyte. 

Take time to pray for God's richest blessing upon your 
soul. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

It is so easy to talk to men after having talked with God. — 
Rev. B. Carradine. 

Prayer is not always talking to God. It is very often 
God talking to us. — Rev. Cornelius Woolfkin, D. D. 

Prayer is the way of approach to God and the soul-winner 
keeps it open by constant use. — Lieut. Col. S. L. Brengle. 

I find that I can move the heart of God in prayer when 
my heart is pure, and when I have no selfish motive. — Rev. 
Ward (of India). 

Prayer makes eternal things prominent and dominant. — 
Arthur T. Pier son, D. D. 

Time is the most expensive coin with which we are 
intrusted, yet God requires the expenditure of this kind of 
coin in secret prayer. — /. H. Stumpf. 

I like short, ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before 
the devil can get a shot at it. — Rev. Rowland Hill. 

It is the prayer which God the Holy Ghost inspires, that 
God the Father answers through the Son. — Dr. Torrey. 

Lord teach us how to pray and give us determination to 
pray much. — Christian Witness. 



2l8 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Pray most when the rush is urgent. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

True prayer consists not so much in words as in the 
sentiments of the heart. — God's Revivalist. 

No man can claim any answer to prayer, unless he is 
determined to be in harmony with God. — Christian Witness. 

We would save ourselves from many mistakes, and often 
have much less work to undo, did we but learn to wait 
upon Him and say " Speak Lord, for they servant heareth." 

— Rev. Cornelius Woolfkin, D. D. 

The school of prayer is the school of unction. — Rev. 
Joseph Smith. 

Meet God in the secret place each day before you come 
in contact with the world. — /. H. Stitmpf. 

Our thoughts may be prayers; there are moments when, 
whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is in 
heaven. — Victor Hugo. 

Thank God there is still a Jesus to whom we can go with 
our burdens and sorrows, and the telling brings great relief. 

— Christian Witness. 

He who has learned to pray in the Holy Ghost, dwells, as 
he prays, in the secret place of the most High, and abides 
under the shadow of the Almighty. — C. R. C. MacGrcgor. 

A hindrance to prayer is disobedience. — Mrs. E. H. 

Wesley prayed two hours a day. — Selected. 

We have too little praying face to face with God. — Bonar. 

A company of people can not pray day after day, month 
after month, in faith, without having things done. — Rev. 
Morrison. 

The best school of all the world is the school of prayer. — 
Rev. Morrison. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 219 

One never gets lonely who prays to his God. — S. A. P. 

We read the character of God in the person of Jesus 
Christ and no longer wonder whether God will answer 
prayer. — Wm. F. McDozvell. 

The sweetest place is the secret place, where we pour out 
our hearts in supplication to the Most High. — Rev. Morri- 
son. 

Let us guard against the attacks of the enemy, by earnest, 
continued prayer. — C. E. Cornell. 

Prayer runs right through the atmosphere of a sinful 
world, up to the ear of a holy God. — Christian Witness. 

True prayer is real power. — Wm. F. McDowell. 

To walk as Jesus walked means to walk in prayer. — 
Sister Rees. 

When we first begin to pray, we first begin to live. — 
S. A. P. 

Importunity is the grace of holding on till you get what 
you want from heaven. — Christian Standard. 

Prayer is absolutely essential both to preaching and hear- 
ing aright — Rev. Ralph Courcey. 

Prayer wakes us up out of the sleep of neglect, it gives 
us a love to do right and its privileges are for all and 
without money and without price. — 6". A. P. 

Praying for people and praying at people are very different 
things. — Way of Faith. 

God is never at a loss for a way to answer prayer. — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 

Ask the dear Lord for all your needs. Make known your 
wants to One who can help you. — 6\ A. P. 

The way to discover if we have prayed aright, is to keep 
at it until we get an answer. — Christian Witness. 



220 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Instead of going to so many people for help, why not 
pray through to God and find His will in the matter. — Way 
of Faith. 

If God's people knew how to go off three times a day and 
get alone, get down as Daniel did, and commune with God, 
they would know things that Daniel knew. — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

Pray slowly and calmly. — Way of Faith. 

We may prevail if we tarry by the cross and gather near 
the throne. — Rev. H. L. Hastings. 

A good prayer : O God, do Thy best in me ; O God, help 
me to do my best for Thee. — Selected. 

A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in 
tune for prayer. — McCheyene. 

It is the prayer of a righteous man that avails much. — 
Rev. T. H. Senft. 

If we study the prayer life of the disciples, we will find 
mighty deliverances were granted, signs and wonders 
wrought, and thousands were converted to the Lord Jesus. 

— Hattie Livingston. 

A prayer with an if in it which does not belong there, 
has no hook in it to call down answers from the throne. — 
T. H. Senft. 

The night before Jonathan Edwards preached that 
wonderful sermon, that started the revival that convulsed 
New England, he and some others spent the night in prayer. 

— Colonel Brengle. 

The spirit of prayer thrives where faith is active. — 
Selected. 

Let us imitate Him who sought the mountain top as His 
refreshment after toil, but never left duties undone or suffer- 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 221 

ers unrelieved in pain. Lord, teach us how to pray. — A. M. 
McLaren. 

Desire in the heart for anything- is God's full promise sent 
beforehand to indicate that it is yours already, in the limitless 
realm of supply and whatever you want of God you can 
have for the asking. — Margaret Bottome. (Unquestionably 
true if the desire is prompted by the Holy Spirit.) — 6*. A. P. 

There is a mightiness in prayer. — John Vance. 

The foundation of every good work is prayer. — S. A. P. 

How few there are, how rare it is to find a person, who 
can pray until a congregation is swayed like trees in a 
breeze. Ask God to give you unction in public prayer. — 
Rev. John Pennington. 

Praying will lead to doing. — Bishop Warren. 



PRIDE. 



The more you esteem yourself, the less you esteem God. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Spiritual pride is a subtle snare. — God's Revivalist. 

Pride has caused all our woes. — Rev. Joseph S. Demp- 
ster. 

We have little doubt that more churches and more Chris- 
tian workers make shipwreck of faith and fall from grace 
because of pride, than from any other one sin. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Pride of every degree and in every form, robs God of the 
glory that belongs to Him, and counts the blood of Jesus a 
needless thing. — Etta E. Shaw. 



222 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There is no power in the universe that can destroy pride 
but the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

We must keep out of our hearts the love of place, the 
love of power, the desire for human honor or praise, and 
every thought that we are great or wise or holy above our 
fellows. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Lord save us from self-sufficiency. God can thrash 
mountains with a worm when the wiggle is out of it. — 
Christian Standard. 

As soon as we become prominent, our Lord is never seen. 
Keep out of sight. — Rev. J. H. Jewett, M. A. 



PROMISES. 

The promises of God form a great check book and every 
one is endorsed by the Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
His word and honor are pledged to their fulfillment. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

We must be sure that we are doing our part, if we 
expect God to do His part. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

However weary you may be, the promises of God will, like 
the stars of night, never cease to shine, to cheer and to 
strengthen. — Christian Witness. 

I found that I had not to bear my expenses, and I should 
have fainted if want and penury had not chased me to the 
"storehouse" of "All." — Samuel Rutherford. 

God wants us to be able to take hold of the largest 
promises in the Bible. — Rev. M. L. Honey. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 223 

God never forgets to fulfil His word, when His condi- 
tions are met. — 6". A. P. 

Everything God has told us is fulfilled in Him. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

God's "So" is just the same to-day as of old. — Rev. 
Buchanan. 

Every person can have all that God promises in the Bible 
if he will. — Rev. John Pennington. 

There is not a promise in the Bible for the future, they 
are all in the present. — Rev. Mrs. Nash. 

The Lord's promises are strong, yet so sweet to a troubled 
heart.— S. A. P. 

God is always true to His promises, when you get there. — 
Selected. 

God has never commanded us to do anything we can not 
do. God help us to get hold on His promises. — Selected. 

God will never leave us so long as we follow Him. — Rev. 
J. F. Lockwood. 

Every commandment of God is a promise. — Rev. E. F. 
Walker. 

God gives by promise that we may take by faith. — 
Christian Standard. 

Trusting a promise will enable one to know its sweetness 
far better than to commit it to memory. — Selected. 

Whosoever will meet the conditions laid down in the 
Bible, shall and will find God true. — David U. McGuinty. 

Christ died in order to secure us all His promises which 
" in Him are yea and amen." — M. T. 

Tarry at a promise until God meets you there. — Selected. 

God's promises are always broader than our prayers. — 
Frances Ridley Havergal. 



224 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God makes a promise, faith believes it, hope anticipates 
it, patience quietly waits for it. — Selected. 

How much we lose by not making- a promise our own — 
the moment the Spirit illuminates it to us. — Mrs. Fuller. 

The promises of God are more real to me than the sweetest 
notes of earth. — Flora B. Nelson. 

All the promises of God are great, but the precious 
promises are the ones we have tested and proven true. — 
Rev. John Thompson. 

The Lord never sent a message to us that He is unable to 
fulfil. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

Are you clothed with the promises of our Lord? Have 
you stepped out upon them in the way of obedience? — 
Dr. Robertson. 

Make the promise of God's Word your own. — Murray. 

God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One 
leads up to another, fuller and more blessed than itself. — 
Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

Every fulfilled promise should increase our faith in those 
that are unfulfilled. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

When you are passing through the darkness, God's Word 
never fails. — Selected. 

God has a way of accomplishing everything He promises. 
— God's Revivalist. 

Fulfil the condition, and God will fulfil the promise. — 
Rev. J. O. Dunning. 

God's promises are heaven's bank-notes, made for circu- 
lation on earth. — Christian JVitncss. 

The God of the Bible never breaks His covenant. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



PROVIDENCE. 



God is pledged to the support of His sons that trust Him. 
— EzraS. Fipple, D. D. 

God will bring every trusting soul safe through every 
stormy sea. He never yet failed any trusting soul. — Chris- 
tian Witness. 

A man's business is just to do his duty; God takes upon 
Himself the feeding and clothing. — George MacDonald. 

God wants no poor children. They should come to Him 
and partake of their inheritance. — Selected.- 

We are always safe when Jesus is with us. No ship can 
go down that has Him on board. — Rev. George P. Par ding- 
ion. 

Our heavenly Father never disappoints those who trust 
and obey Him. — Rev. D. W. Wyland. 

God is in a condition to give us all we need. — Rev. H. W. 
Hoople. 

It is so beautiful to see the hand of God in our daily 
lives. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Men are lost because they over-ride, or fail to notice, the 
providence of God. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

If we are faithful to the duties of the present, God will 
provide for the future. — Bedell. 

There can be no danger to the Christian no matter what 
may happen. — Stevenson. 

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind. — Rev. 
Henry Coleman, D. D. 

You can't crush a good man who is girded by the arms 
of the Almighty. — George R. Stewart. 
IS 



226 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God lives, and takes care of His own. — Selected. 

That which God wills for us is always good. — Christian 
Work. 

If we serve God with a perfect heart, we may be sure 
that God will take care of our interests. — Christian Mission- 
ary Alliance. 

Every one's life is a thought of God, and has a special 
place in the divine plan. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God's providence looks after little things. — Rev. J. N. 
Fradenburg, D. D. 

Every link in God's providence is important. — /. R. Mil- 
ler, D. D. 

God is carefully looking after the man who is looking 
after Him. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The Lord's providence rules words as well as deeds, and 
makes men say the right words without their knowing why 
they say them. — Rev. Chas. H. Spurgcon. 

God knows all our enemies, open and secret. He is 
acquainted with our perils, known and unknown. — Rev. B. 
Carradine. 

Nothing can really harm us when Christ is taking care of 
us. — Selected. 

He that hath God's call, need not fear in the hour of 
danger. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

God can defeat any scheme against His children. — West- 
minster Quarterly. 

Our God, whom we serve, will overrule all things to His 
glory and we shall be satisfied. — Rev. J. C. Pingrcc. 

Accept the Lord as your Shepherd and He will prove to 
you how abundantly every want will be supplied. — M. E. 
Howell. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 227 

A man who is comfortable in grace, need not be uncom- 
fortable in providence. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God speaks to His children through His providences as 
much as He does through the Bible. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

The Lord knows how to care for those who are wholly 
given up to Him. — Colonel Brengle. (Salvation Army.) 



PURITY. 



Let us get to that place, that when the devil comes, he will 
find nothing in us. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Regard not how full hands but how pure hands you bring 
to God. — Taylor. 

The twin sister of purity is power. — Dr. Carradine. 

The sweetest feeling is to feel whiter than the snow. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

You ask how pure you can be. The word of God says 
"As He is pure." — Sister Rees. 

Happiness is not to be despised, but first of all, and above 
all, cleanliness is to be desired. " First pure, then peace- 
able." — Clement C. Cary. 

A pure heart doeth two things : it maketh thee to do what- 
sover thou doest either for love of God only, or for the good 
or benefit of another. — Saint Bernard. 

The purity of God is His own shield, and the shield of all 
who trust Him. — Christian Standard. 

A pure heart gives a pleasing expression to the counte- 
nance. — Selected. 

God wants a clean heart, then a clean body made beauti- 
ful. — Dr. Levy. 



228 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The world demands, and has a right to demand, that each 
servant of God shall be clean and pure in heart. — Rev. F. C. 
Scott 

When the precious blood has purified the senses of our 
inner spirit man, then the Holy Spirit has nothing to hinder 
His inflow and the infilling of those senses with His pres- 
ence. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

A single aim can never be maintained without a pure 
heart. — Rev. M. L. Honey. 

With a pure heart, you can grow ten times faster in the 
grace of God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

We may really have a pure heart filled with the Holy 
Ghost.— N. J. Holmes. 

Nothing but purity is going in through the pearly gates. 
— Rev. E. A. Fergcrson. 

" With the heart man believeth unto righteousness :" and 
this righteousness is purity in heart and enables one to 
perceive God. — Bishop H. W. Warren. 

Most people want power, or think they do, but it is purity 
they need. — Rev. Aura Smith. 

You will keep pure as long as you walk in the light of 
the Son of God. His blood will then cleanse. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

" Keep thyself pure " by earnest prayer, faithful testimony 
and good example. — George W. Thompson. 

A right heart is a pure heart. — H. L. Pozvers. 

A clean heart is a divine creation, not a human develop- 
ment. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

It is the Holy Ghost who gives you a pure heart. — Rev. 
E. L. Hyde. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 229 

A pure heart is the privilege of every child of God. — 
Rev. J. N. Hill. 

As soon as a person is made a new creature in Christ, 
God creates in him an unearthly desire for purity. — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 

God helps us to be pure and then to help others. — Rev. 
Diverty. 

There are no pure lives without pure hearts. — Ram's 
Horn. 

When the heart is made pure the Holy Ghost begins to 
clothe it— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Faith and reason kiss each other. — Selected. 



REASON. 



The most reasonable thing in the world is to get right 
with God. — Rev. J. W. Hughes. 

Carnality is unreasonable and always tends to extremes. — 
Selected. 

Reason is a precious gift of God, and when used properly 
is a blessing of incalculate value. — Rev. W. Reddy, D. D. 



REGENERATION. 

We receive spiritual life through faith in Jesus. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

We never know the love of God, until we get regenerated. 
— Rev. G. D. Watson. 



230 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Reformation may change the outward man, but regenera- 
tion changes the inner man. — M. E. Hozvell. 

Regeneration is needed to make us changed in the sight 
of God. — M. E. Hozvell. 

Regeneration invests us with God's life. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

A truly regenerate soul is not satisfied until he can find 
some one who will listen to the story of salvation through 
Christ Jesus. — H. A. E rick son. 

Only those who have been born again are God's chil- 
dren. — Rev. Coursey. 

The very first thing that pleases God is for you, as an 
unsaved person, to surrender to the Holy Spirit to be 
born into the family of God. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

There is no other way of becoming a " man of God " 
except through the gateway of regeneration. — Dr. Levy. 

Those who are truly regenerate become the sons of God 
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse 
generation among whom they shine as lights in the world. — 
Northwestern Advocate. 

You are just as much under obligation to cease from 
sinning in regeneration, as in entire sanctification. — Rev. 
Brooks. 

When we are adopted into the family of God we have 
all the rights of the children of God. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

When a man takes his place as a sinner, the Father can 
receive him as a son. — S. S. Lesson Illustrator. 

The Holy Spirit comes in the moment the penitent sinner 
believes in Jesus, and drops in the life and heart the very 
life of the Father, and we are born into the family of God. — 
Rev. M. M. Bales. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 23I 

Moral life belongs to all men, spiritual life belongs to all 
those who have become spiritual. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Holy Ghost alone is competent to renew the mind 
and heart of the unbeliever, and raise him from the dead. — 
Rev. Henry Varley. 

Regeneration is indeed the work of the Holy Spirit, but 
not the coming in of the abiding of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. 
N. I. Holmes. 

" Ye must be born again " is the heart command of Jesus. 
— 5-. A. P. 

He who is not born again can not have gospel experience 
and the gospel life. We must " be " before we can " do." — 
Christian Standard. 

Every one's real birthday is the day he becomes a 
Christian.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

The new birth restores the lost image of God. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

We must have the life of God before we can belong to the 
family of God, or even understand the things of God. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

A Christian is not an imitation, but should be a reproduc- 
tion of Christ. — Bishop Thoburn. 

None can understand divine things, unless he is born of 
God. — Rev. E. S. Dunham. 

The believer owes his new life to a spiritual source. We 
are born of the Holy Spirit. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

God gave Jesus Christ a birthday so I could have a 
birthday. " Ye must be born again." — 5. A. P. 

Our whole spiritual life begins the moment we are born 
into the family of God. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



REPENTANCE. 



God has mercies for us forever, white-winged mercies, 
all for the condition of forsaking sin. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

Real repentance makes a man cautious about touching sin. 
— Evangelist Ruth. 

God can not forgive you until you repent. — Selected. 

The deeply penitent sinner will mourn over his wicked 
thoughts until his heart of hearts will bleed at every pore 
and break with grief. " The Lord is nigh unto them that 
are of a broken heart ; and saveth such as be of a contrite 
spirit." (Ps. 34:18.) — Old-Time Religion. 

When you repent in dust and ashes, God will run to meet 
you. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

At the first step heavenward, God runs to meet the sinner. 
— Rev. Geo. P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

It means much to say from the heart, " Forgive me," but 
it often rolls away the stone. — C. O. Moulton. 

Repentance is the only path that leads to the cross. — The 
Pentecostal Era. 

True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, 
and being broken from sin. — Thornton. 

There are many reasons that demand repentance, and 
God commands it. — John Vance. 

The Holy Spirit will show every soul the sins he needs to 
repent of, then teach him the way to do it. — Selected. 

In thorough revivals the people's eyes are opened to see 
how they have robbed God both in tithes and offerings, 
and if they have taken anything by false accusation they 
are readv to restore fourfold. — Rev. S. B. Show. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 233 

Genuine repentance ends sin in a man's life. — John Pen- 
nington. 

We need some John the Baptist wandering through the 
land crying " repent, repent." — D. L. Moody. 

Time is short at the longest ; make haste, be sorry for thy 
sins. — U. W. Lyon. 

True repentance brings us out of the things of which we 
truly repent. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Pentecostal tears wash the dust out of our eyes. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

A truly repentant soul is like a man on a sinking ship 
looking for a way of escape — willing to abandon all else 
if he may save his own life. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

True repentance shows itself in our carefulness. — 
Selected. 

Real, true repentance reverses a man's heart; it makes 
him quit his meanness, and makes him determine to do 
right. — Rev. Byron J. Rees. 

Repentance is a godly sorrow for sin that will follow 
conviction in every heart, when the will is yielded to God. — 
Rev. S. B. Shazv. 

It is refreshing to meet a few converts of the Zachaeus 
stamp. — Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr. 

Repenting will stop your sinning, or sinning will stop 
your repenting. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Every state of grace is built upon repentings and faith. — 
Selected. 

Repentance is the highest priced article in the universe. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The deeper the roots of repentance the taller the tree of 
holiness. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



234 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The message of repentance is always God's preparation 
for every advance movement. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

If you were deep rooted in repentance, you will also be 
deep rooted in holiness. — S. A. P. 

God gives us pain for sin because it has pained Him. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Repentance is the wicket gate into the kingdom of heaven. 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Every man and every woman who get on their knees to 
repent of sin make a bargain with God Almighty that they 
are done with sin forever. — Rev. Compton. 

The Holy Ghost prepares the heart of the true penitent 
and helps him to forsake every idol and every sinful practice 
and desire and seek first the kingdom of God and His 
righteousness. (See Deut. 4: 29, and Jer. 29: 13.) — Rev. 
S. B. Shaiv. 



RESPONSIBILITY. 

The world will not so much be held accountable for igno- 
rance, as for the rejection of light. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

We have to deal with God as individuals. — John Vance. 

The most awful thing I know is my accountability to 
God. — Daniel Webster. 

God holds us responsible for to-day's ability and to-day's 
opportunities. — Ernest Lee Thomson. 

Great responsibility rests upon all men who have an 
opportunity of hearing the gospel. — Rev. J. W. M osier. 

Accountability to God, now and after death, is one great 
anchor-hold of the Spirit in man. — Rev. James Con^hcy. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 235 

You can, of course, do as you please ; but you will have to 
settle the matter with your Gocl some day. — Lutheran. 

Responsibility is an element of growth in grace. — Rev. 
J. W. Hill, Sr. 

When God gives a trust into the hands of any of His 
children, it means responsibility and interest beyond our 
finite conception. — Anna Abrams. 

We are responsible up to the last particle of our power. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

When Jesus left the world He put the responsibility of 
telling the story of the Saviour with men, instead of angels. 
— Christian Witness. 



REST. 



Christ's call is rest. His yoke is easy, His burden is light. 
— Rev. John Pennington. 

Be altogether at rest, in loving, holy obedience. — 
Francis DeSales. 

What a rest God hath found for my soul. — Bishop R. S. 
Foster. 

Be still, child of God, compose yourself upon the very 
bosom of God's love and care. — Eben H. Hopkins {Lon- 
don, England). 

Without a conscience that is clear and a mind that is 
undisturbed, there is no rest. — Episcopal Recorder. 

There is a kind of rest that is so established that it is 
perfect rest. — Selected. 

We can not rest if we do not believe, and if we believe we 
can not but rest. — Mrs. M. Baxter. 



23t> SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God gives His children rest but bids them give Him no 
rest till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. — 
Selected. 

How few know the secret of resting in God. — The Silent 
Evangelist. 

The Lord wants His children to have real soul rest, 
so they can be of service and help others. — Mrs. Lamson. 

With an abiding Jesus, we have immunity from care. — 
M. T. 

Ten thousand cares have no more weight to my mind than 
ten thousand hairs to my head. — John Wesley. 

Keep a good conscience and have a cheerful trust in God 
for all things for both worlds. — Selected. 

The Christian life is not a struggle to live right ; it is a 
life of rest, life of faith and trust in Jesus Christ. — 
Christian Standard. 

God will put in an enginery mighty enough to enable you 
and me to plow through to the calm haven of rest above. — 
Rev. C. J. Fozvler. 

Jesus Christ is able to deal with our cares. — G. H. C. 
McGregor. 

God is the true rest of His people. — Rev. G. P. Parding- 
ton. 

" Soul rest " is the most easily active thing in the world. 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

When we have soul rest, it makes the rough path smooth, 
and the wilderness a pool of water. — Christian Missionary 
Alliance. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



REVELATION. 



You can only know God in one way and that is by 
revelation. — Rev. C. 0. Moulton. 

There is nothing in this world more reasonable than 
divine revelation. Just as surely as there is a God there is 
a divine revelation of Him and of His will to man. — v9. B. 
Shaw. 

We have a revealed religion. — Dr. Bye. 

We all have glimpses and revealings of better things, and 
we should try to reach these things. — Westminster 
Quarterly. 

God is waiting to reveal Himself to any person. — Rev. 
A. T. H tilery. 

We must not only know ourselves to know God, but we 
must know something of God to know ourselves. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 



REVIVALS. 

Genuine revivals are " born, not made." God is their 
author and the Holy Spirit is His executor and director. 
Human instrumentality is needful but only in submission 
to the divine will and power. — Old-Time Religion. 

Get the Lord to give you one really genuine, practical 
revival and you can gain fragments enough to start a hun- 
dred other revivals. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

Death to the opinions, the criticisms and scorns of the 
world, will bring sweeping revivals. — Rev. Edward B. 
Reece. 



238 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The need of to-day in the church of Christ, is a revival of 
conscience and righteousness. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

From the human side, true revivals are born of intense 
desire and prevailing prayer — wrought by the power of 
the Holy Ghost in the heart of one or more of God's chil- 
dren. — Old-Time Religion. 

A revival of religion is a revival of temperance, honesty, 
industry, kindness, and domestic love. — Michigan Christian 
Advocate. 

Those whom God honors in bringing about a revival are 
those who have taken to heart the desolation of Zion and 
have poured out their souls — not in criticism and fault- 
finding, but in confession and tears on their faces before the 
Lord. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

If everybody commenced to-morrow morning to do the 
best they knew, the kingdom of God would come with 
power. — Christian Witness. 

Place the standard high and hold on till God sends us 
mighty revivals, so that the people will say, " The Lord, He 
is God." — Rev. Morrison. 

A genuine revival means the trimming of personal lamps. 
— Rev. T. L. Cuyler. 

The heavens are freighted with clouds of blessing, ready 
to fall upon God's waiting people. — Rev. J. M. Pike. 

There is no permanent revival, where the heart is not 
reached. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Generally speaking, the more direct and visible means 
used to bring about a revival is the strong faithful preaching 
of the Word, resulting in a manifestation of humility and 
repentance on the part of God's professed people. — Old- 
Time Religion. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



O for repeated pentecosts that shall deluge this world 
with cloud-bursts of salvation until it is bright with 
Millennial glory. — God's Revivalist. 



REWARD. 

It is no sin to want heaven. Covet " riches of glory." — 
Rev, E. I. D. Pepper. 

Paul kept His eye on the end, and pressed forward for 
the prize of the high calling, a princely place in the coming 
kingdom. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Through Christ we may have riches in glory, — Rev. D. 
Rand. Pierce. 

God wants us to gain victorious possessions. — Rev. C. 
P. Masden. 

Let all true Christians remember that their best things 
are yet to come. — Bishop J. C. Ryle. 

" If a son, then an heir of God.'' Not simply an heir to 
all God has but of all that He is.— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Christ grants to all in whom He abides, the highest 
possible prosperity — Rev. M. W. Knap p. 

The less credit we get for our work in this life, the more 
we will get in the life to come. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The abundant entrance and the abundant reward is the 
legitimate goal for every Christian. — W. J. Mosier. 

Those truly blessed of God are His salt and light for this 
world and will hear the words of Christ " Come ye blessed 
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you." — 
Martin Hilbish. 



24-0 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

All God's blessings to His children have conditions 
attached to them. If we fulfill the conditions, we are sure 
to receive the blessings. — Rev. F. E. Marsh. 

The crown is worth the contention — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God gives us salvation for nothing ; but the rewards and 
crowns yonder must be won by noble service and heroic 
suffering. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

God puts His righteousness in you for you to work it 
out. — Selected. 

Little love is little righteousness ; great love is great 
righteousness ; perfect love is perfect righteousness. — St. 
Augustine. 

Blessed and happy are the people who have the self-con- 
sciousness that they are right with God. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

Blessed is the man who is big enough and good enough 
to be persecuted for righteousness. — Selected. 

The righteousness of the people is the only hope of the 
world. — Selected. 

Righteousness brings exaltation. Sin brings degradation. 
— S. A. P. 

A revelation of God's righteousness brings a revelation of 
God's judgments against sin and Satan and of the judg- 
ment day. — Rev. S. B. Sham. 

A righteous man invites investigation. He is willing to be 
tested.— Rev. M. W. Knapp. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 241 

Only righteousness exalts. All sin degrades. — E. E. S. 

Sin folds me in her pall, and the night of death has 
dominion over me, if I be not awake to righteousness. — 
George Bowen. 

Every righteous principle is from God and is as eternal 
as His throne. — Anna Abrams. 

If you want to do right it is astonishing how God will 
help you.— S. A. P. 

We can not do a righteous act without Christ. — Dr. Levy. 

Righteous living is a result of right thinking. — Mrs. G. 
A. McLaughlin. 



SABBATH. 

The Lord of the Sabbath knows those who keep His 
day. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. This is the 
only one of the ten commandments that begins with the 
word "remember." — 5. A. P. 

God gave us the Sabbath for a delight. — Selected. 

We should keep the Sabbath as a holy day unto the Lord ; 
not from a sense of duty, but from a spirit of love. — Rev. 
George P. Pardington, D. D. 

If we would be happy and would have God's blessing 
with us always, we must keep the Lord's holy day. — 
Selected. 

The early Christians made the Lord's day one of gladness. 
— Northwestern Christian Advocate. 
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SACRIFICE. 



Christianity is above all other religions ever known, a 
religion of sacrifice. — Stanley. 

Perfect love shows itself in sacrifice. — Sunday School 
Times. 

It is the habit of making sacrifices in small things that 
enables us to make them in great when it is asked of us. — 
Bishop Thorold. 

The law of Christ's cross runs through all life. — Rev. J. 
R. Miller, D. D. 

We must pay the price where God has set a price. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

The old Bible has five sacrifices ; all the sacrifices 
merged into the sacrifice of Jesus. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The very life blood of Christianity is the spirit of sac- 
rifice. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

There is nothing that will so impress the world as the 
spectacle of Christian self-sacrifice. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Christians must learn sacrifice before they can reach the 
sweetest joys. — Christian Witness. 

We bring our emptiness to God to be filled, and then we 
take it back to Him, and pour it out as an offering of loving 
service. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Self-sacrifice is never the real thing, until self is forgotten 
clean and clear, in loving thought of others. — Rev. Joseph 
H. Smith. 

Tell the king that I die for Uganda. I have bought this 
road with my life. — James Huntington (murdered in East- 
ern Africa). 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 243 

The whole of the life of God is the sacrifice of self. — F. 
W. Robertson. 

No efforts, gifts or sacrifices for Christ and His cause, 
shall ever be lost. — Rev. C. H. V/estwood. 

Faith is a sacrificing spirit, for only faith will make yon 
let go of this world. — Dr. Carradine. 

Only sacrifice is gold in heaven. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

We must make some sacrifice, if we want God to prosper 
us. — Selected. 

If you and I live a sanctified and broken life, there will 
be pieces of our lives left to bless others. — Rev. Byron J. 
Rees. 

Jesus came to give His life a ransom for many. — Rev. 
Timothy Frost. 

This is the only life in which we can sacrifice anything for 
Jesus. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



SALVATION. 

Sinners can be saved at any place and at any time. — 
Selected. 

The only real salvation is to walk and talk with God. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Christ can break inside sin and outside sins. — Selected. 

Salvation is the richest thing man ever touched. — Rev. 
Dr. Briggs. 

Salvation is the only thing in the world that will make 
people what they ought to be. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

God never begins at a man's finger ends to save him. — 
Selected. 



244 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There is a remedy for sin ; it is salvation. — Selected. 

Christianity represents God as seeking man ; the Son of 
man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. — The 
American Illustrated Methodist. 

Salvation always produces fruit. — Pentecostal Era. 

Salvation is made to bring us to the right. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

Christ is able to save because he stands as He does between 
man and God. — New York Christian Advocate. 

To get real salvation, every one has to leave sin. — M. E. 
Howell. 

The cup of salvation is ours to accept and use ; have we 
drunk its exhilarating contents ? Have we the abundant life 
it supplies? — Philadelphia Methodist. 

The divine mind has prepared for us perfect pardon, 
perfect cleansing, perfect wisdom, and perfect judgment; 
the first two we get in this life, the last two in the life to 
come. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Salvation is more than getting through the water; it is 
getting the fire. — The Pentecostal Era. 

There is no salvation except to those who obey God. — 
Rev. B. S. Taylor. 

Separation from all evil, repentance of sin, faith toward 
God, amendment of life; these are the steps toward salva- 
tion. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

There is no more need for a man to sin than there is for 
an angel to sin. It is not God's will that man should sin. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

It is a glorious truth that a perfect salvation, perfect health 
of soul, and a blessed prospect of life eternal now and 
hereafter, may be had for the asking. — T. J. T. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 245 

It is allowing Christ to come to tts and have His way with 
us that saves us. — Bishop J. H. Vincent 

We have as much salvation as we have of God; neither 
more nor less. — Selected. 

God not only takes our sins away but He takes them out 
of the way. — Rev. L. C. Pettit. 

Sin has never been closer to you than Christ can be to 
you. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

A short cut to salvation. First, Jesus is able to save; 
second, He is willing to save; third, He will save to the 
uttermost; fourth, He will save you if you will let Him. — 
Bishop William Taylor. 

Salvation depends upon a right view of Jesus Christ. — 
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Do not think you can live without salvation, for salva- 
tion will save you from sin. — S. A. P. 

The whole plan of salvation is to deal with sin. — Rev. 
C. E. Cornell. 

Jesus is willing to save every one who asks Him honestly 
to do it. — Jerry McCauley. 

Let us not minimize this salvation, but rather fan it till 
it leaps as high as the Bible makes it leap. — Rev. Byron 
Rees. 

Sin has never occupied you more fully than Christ can 
possess you. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Mercy forgives our sins, grace prevents our sinning. — 
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Free salvation without money and without price, has 
always been the most attractive. — Dr. A. O. Monk. 

Salvation is not complete till it keeps us from sinning and 
from sin. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 



246 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Salvation is as high as heaven, and as broad as the needs 
of all human kind. It meets the need of all men. — Rev. C. 
IV. Ruth. 

There is no salvation for the world except from within. — 
Rev. S. Chad-wick. 

The happiest man to-day is the man who has salvation. — 
Mr. Bradley. 

Let us be careful to use the present hour, and to work out 
our own salvation with fear and trembling. God working 
in us. — Rev. Otto Stockmeyer. 

No mortal can be found on the face of the earth, who is 
not included in the plan of salvation. — Rev. C. IV. Ruth. 

Christ came to take away the sin of the world ; this in- 
cludes inbred sin. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

I tell you the biggest and best thing in the world is sal- 
vation. — Rev. E. L. Hyde. 

It is a wonderful thing to be straight with God Almighty, 
and to know we are the children of God.— Mr. Riley. 

I have all the salvation I want, for God has provided it 
for me. Whenever I get ready for it, it is there ready for 
me. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

The question for every man to consider about is this, "Am 
I saved? If not, how can I be? " — Rev. Dr. Quillman. 

Salvation is a heart matter. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

He is a very foolish man who refuses the living water 
because he does not like the drinking vessel in which it is 
brought. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We must -give up sin forever, to enter upon everlasting 
life in Christ. — Westminster Quarterly. 

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom the Lord hath. 
given to be the propitiation for thy sins, and thou shalt be 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 247 

saved, first from the guilt of sin, having redemption through 
the blood; then from the power which shall have no more 
dominion over thee, and then from the root of it, into the 
whole image of God. — John Wesley. 

The beauty of Christ will not save us ; it takes His all- 
cleansing blood, applied to our hearts, to do the saving of 
our souls. — Rev. E. M. Bounds. 

" How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ? " 
It is the most wonderful thing in the universe. — Rev. W. B. 
Godbey. 

Jesus not only saves you from hell, but He brings you into 
His kingdom, and saves you from depravity, and fills you 
with the Holy Ghost. — Rev. IV. B. Godbey. 

The Bible teaches that Christ came into the world to de- 
stroy the works of the devil. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

Salvation is practical, it just helps folks do anything for 
jesus' sake. — God's Revivalist. 

Jesus came to save lives as well as souls. — Dr. Morrison. 

If a man has to stop sinning to get saved, he must keep 
from sinning to keep saved. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The Son of God who cast out devils can deliver you from 
your besetting sin. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

We have a great God and a great Saviour, who came not 
to suppress and to keep under, but to destroy the works of 
the devil.— Rev. M. IV. Knapp. 

Sin is one of the most deceiving things in all the world. 
Salvation is one of the most simple things. — Rev. Andrew 
Dolbozv. 

O for an unswerving confidence in the transforming 
power of God for the human race ! — Mrs. Blanche (Reed) 
Johnson. 



^48 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When you enter the kingdom at all, you leave your sins 
outside the door. — Rev. E. S. Dunham. 

The very moment we believe God, He will set us free. — 
Rev. Andrew Dolbow. 

There is a lack, a sad want, in the life of every one who 
does not possess Christ. — Mrs. M. Baxter. 

A case of real salvation sends a man after some other soul. 
— Rev. G. W. Ridout. 

Salvation is for all them that fear God. — V. Chafhn. 

We must know that not evolution but salvation is the key 
to events and laws and facts. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God is light and will give Himself to every awakened sin- 
ner that waiteth for Him ; and thou shalt be a temple of the 
living God. — Charles Wesley. 

It is greatly refreshing to hear the old gospel presented in 
the old way, as still the power of God to save men from all 
sin and all sinning. — Way of Faith. 

It is a blessed fact that no one is too old to receive Christ 
and be saved. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Salvation is a matter of experience, and is a revelation of 
the Spirit to the humble, seeking, believing soul. — Rev. J. 
W. Hill, Sr. 

Take away the blessed consciousness of Christ formed 
within the hope of glory, and our religion is an empty 
thing. — Evangelical Messenger. 

God not only provides to save us, but to keep us saved. — 
Rev. Glascock. 

It pays in this life to live real salvation. — Allen Newton. 

The Bible always addresses salvation to the individual. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Salvation is personal. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 249 

Get all that crookedness out of your heart and the Lord 
will come, swift as the lightning. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

Thank God there is a way out of sin, and a way for sin to 
be taken out of us. — Dr. Bresee. 

Religion according to Christ is best shown in the attitude 
of the soul toward God first of all, but also toward man. — 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Your salvation is a trust as well as a privilege. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

God can never be reconciled to sin. We are to be recon- 
ciled to Him in His purpose, in His plan, in His power ; and 
Christ is the medium of reconciliation. — Rev. G. Campbell 
Morgan. 

One of the sweetest comforts of the Christian is the 
thought that he is saved both from his past and his future. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



SANCTIFICATION. 

Anybody can love the lovely, but it takes a sanctified heart 
to love the unlovely. — Selected. 

There is a veil on the heart until we are sanctified. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

A heart that has been sanctified in the depths of the 
Saviour's blood will, like the sea shell, sound forth its mem- 
ories of praise and thanksgiving unto all generations. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

When a person is in the experience of " entire sanctifica- 
tion," he develops more rapidly in the Christian graces. — 
Rev. Chas. W. Dane. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Sanctification makes us overcomers. — V. D. Chaflin. 

Believe God when He says the altar sanctifies the gift. — 
Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Sanctification is the power of godliness. — Rev. IV. B. 
Godbey. 

Sanctification conforms us to God's nature. — Rev. Joseph 
H. Smith. 

Brain, heart, and body must be sanctified wholly, because 
one reacts on the other. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Jesus would not have died to sanctify us if it had not been 
necessary. — Rev. D. B. Stroitse. 

Regeneration is the introduction of the new life into the 
soul ; sanctification is the death of the old nature, and its 
eradication from the soul. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Your sanctification must not be a theory in your head, but 
a practical surrender in your life, touching every faculty and 
fiber of your being. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Salvation includes sanctification. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

A great many want the rich fruits of sanctification who 
can not bear the reproach of being sanctified. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

The reason so many professors are so indifferent about 
entire sanctification is because they are not in a state of 
justification. — Dr. Pierce. 

Entire sanctification purifies all the thoughts of the heart, 
and makes them like heaven. — Way of Faith. 

Sanctification is a sure cure for lukewarmness and back- 
sliding tendencies. — Bishop Taylor. 

If you will pray for the promise of the Father, as the 
disciples did, and pray your way through, there will come an 
experience in your life that you will not be able to forget, 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 25 1 

and you will know that God has sanctified your soul. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

There is much leveling up to be done, after one is sancti- 
fied. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

You get life in conversion, and in sanctification you get 
life more abundant. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Justification takes away the shoots of sin; sanctification 
takes away the roots of sin. Justification takes away the acts 
of sin; sanctification takes away the principle of sin. — Rev. 

C. W. Ruth. 

The Greek word for sanctification literally means, " take 
the earth out of us." — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Holy Ghost is our " Sanctifier," to keep the heart 
pure. — Selected. 

It is a big thing to be wholly sanctified, and a greater 
thing to keep wholly sanctified. — Selected. 

Sanctification makes you a fearless, fighting, conquering 
soldier of Christ.— Rev. W. B. Godbey, A. M. 

True sanctification forgets itself and lives in constant de- 
pendence upon the Lord Jesus as its Righteousness and All- 
sufficiency. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Justification puts a new life in the heart, sanctification 
purifies the heart, and makes it a fit temple for that life. — 
Pentecostal Era. 

Sanctification by the incoming and abiding of the Holy 
Ghost is the completion of our personal salvation from sin. 
— Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

Sanctification brings us unto a place where God can work 
out His will through us. — Joseph Turnmore. 

Conversion is a birth, sanctification is a death, — Rev. G. 

D. Watson. 



252 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Entire sanctification is deeper than the tendencies toward 
evil. It destroys the root from which they all spring. — Way 
of Faith. 

You can not be justified unless you continue to say yes to 
God, and this will lead to your entire sanctification. — Rev. 
J. N. Short. 

In regeneration God takes us out of the world ; in sanctifi- 
cation He takes the world out of us. — Selected. 

God sanctifies His people and keeps them pure, and takes 
the lust of the flesh out of them, and gives them victory over 
the world, the flesh, and the devil. — Deacon Morse. 

God is saying to every saint, " I will be sanctified in you 
before their eyes." — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

In conversion we have but entered the threshold of the 
temple, and in sanctification but the rent veil of the holy of 
holies. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God doesn't want His believing children to have a civil 
war in their hearts going on all the time. — Rev. B. Carra- 
dine. 

Sanctification means humbly to serve. — Rev. G. A. Mc- 
Laughlin. 

After you have laid your gift upon the altar, look away 
from the gift toward the skies, from whence the fire shall 
come down to consume your sacrifice in token of its accept- 
ance. Having done your part, trust God to do His. Let go 
of yourself, and trust in Jesus' blood. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

Jesus knew how to save the world. He demanded that all 
should be sanctified in order that the world should be made 
to believe. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Justification frees us from sins committed, and sanctifica- 
tion from depravity inherited. — Pentecostal Era. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 253 

The sinner comes to the altar, and he finds salvation, and 
then he gets upon the altar, which is Christ, and dies. It 
takes a living man to die. — Rev. M. M. Bales. 

When sins are spoken of in the Bible we are told that 
they are forgiven, but when sin is spoken of we are told that 
it must be cleansed. — Rev. E. L. Hyde. 

Sarah was a religious radical, for she told Abraham that 
the carnal-minded Ishmael should not be repressed in her 
home, but expressed out of it. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

If you would be a deep divine, I recommend to you sanc- 
tification. — Samuel Rutherford. 

Jesus, sanctified by God, put away sin. — /. R. McLaren. 

Sanctification will settle you in the truth. — Samuel Ruth- 
erford. 

Justification saves us from condemnation, sanctification 
from depravity, and glorification from infirmities. — Rev. 
W. B. Godbey. 

Sanctification brings with it an experience hitherto un- 
known to the regenerate heart. — Bishop Taylor. 

Sanctification gives us a new sense of the divine pres- 
ence. It imparts a knowledge and power to the soul 
hitherto unknown. — Bishop Taylor. 

Only those who are sanctified wholly can love God with all 
the heart, mind, and strength. — Selected. 

If you ever get sanctified wholly you will know it. — Rev. 
Compton. 

In justification the will is yielded to the divine will. In 
entire sanctification it is thoroughly harmonized with that 
will. — Christian Witness. 

The justified eat of the manna that fell in the wilderness 
out of doors. The sanctified or overcomers eat of the hidden 



254 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

manna, for they are hid with Christ in God. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

There is a song in the sanctified soul that no one else can 
sing. — Bishop Taylor. 

It is the will of God, even your sanctification. That is 
what Paul said, and he ought to know. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

When you are converted, your spirit is made alive ; and 
when you are sanctified your spirit is clarified. — Rev. G. 
D. Watson. 

Your getting wholly sanctified does not stop the devil 
sending out his committee to watch you. — Rev. M. IV. 
Knap p. 

After you are sanctified, the devil has got to fight you on 
the outside. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Anything the devil has put into the heart, Jesus Christ is 
able to take out. — Rev. C. Hozvard Davis. 

The same power that can take sin out of the heart can 
keep it out. — /. W. S. 

Snow is the natural whiteness ; but when God cleanses 
the soul it is supernaturally white. — Rev. B. S. Taylor. 

Every child of God as soon as he is born (of the Spirit), 
is sent to school to the Holy Ghost, and if he learns his les- 
son, he will soon find out what his privileges are. He will 
learn that it his privilege to have " an inheritance among 
them that are sanctified." — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

Live in entire sanctification — all your heart God's throne. 
— Bramwell. 

You can not keep justified long without getting sanctified, 
or else you'll go back. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Sanctification is a big word, but it will make you feci 
mighty little.— Rev. C. W. Ruth. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 255 

When Jesus comes into our hearts in saving and sancti- 
fying power, everything is changed.— Dora Bulla. 

When people get saved and sanctified and filled with the 
Holy Ghost, they get something that every human being 
wants and needs. — Rev. Chas. Stalker. 

How do you get saved? — Let God have His way with 
you. How do you get sanctified ? — Let God have His way 
with you. — M. G. Standley. 

Jesus can set you free. He can take that troublesome 
thing out of your heart; that evil nature, that carnal mind, 
that something that distresses you. — Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

The man who is sanctified wholly is as free as heaven. It 
delivers us from selfishness, from our ease ; it gives us a 
burning love for souls. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 



SECOND COMING. 

I have to build character for the coining of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, whether He shall come right away or a thousand 
years from now. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

You can not be worldly in life, you can not be half-hearted, 
you can not follow the Lord afar off, if you believe He is 
coming back soon. — Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

We are the most fortunate generation that ever lived on 
the earth, from the fact that we are nearest the coming of 
the Lord and the rapture of the Bride. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

The " Comforter " has come, and the " King " is coming 
soon. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



256 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

SEEKING AFTER GOD. 

When you search for God as you do for a hidden treasure, 
you will find Him. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

We have got to want God if we get Him. — Rev. BeVier. 

People can not seek God and not find Him, but they must 
be desperately in earnest. — Rev. BeVier. 

God help you to seek after God, as men seek after gold. — 
Rev. J. A. Kring. 

Turn from everything else, and you will find Jesus. — Rev. 
BeVier. 

The first duty of every one is to seek God and find Him. 
— Selected. 



SELF-DENIAL. 

Love is always exercising self-denial without tasting its 
bitterness, and almost without ever thinking of it. — Ters- 
teegen. 

Self-denial is one of the strongest trials of Christian char- 
acter. — Lind. Jeanette Walk. 

I take pleasure in being pinched and pressed for Christ's 
sake. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The more a man denies himself for God, the more is be- 
stowed upon him by God. — Rev. Thos. H. Nelson. 

We can let somebody else have even our rights now, and 
bye-and-bye we shall sit with Him on His throne, and the 
trials of the past will seem not worth a thought. — Editor 
Living Truths. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



One of the sweetest joys which thrills the human soul, 
comes from sacrifice of self. — Rev. B. Carradine. 



SELFISHNESS. 

As long as your heart has any carnality in it you can not 
be unselfish. — Rev. Will Huff. 

An unsanctified man seeks to get all he can out of other 
people. A sanctified man seeks to do all he can for others. 

— Pentecostal Era. 

Money not consecrated to God is the world's ruin. — Se- 
lected. 

Sure nothing short of the fiery baptism with the Holy 
Ghost will deliver and save from the awful sin of selfishness. 

— Rev. A. Lee Gray. 

Sanctification frees us from selfishness. — Bishop Taylor. 



SEPARATION. 

God's people are separated from all the world to Himself 
by an everlasting covenant, which neither man nor devils 
can break. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

O that we would keep so far away from the world that it 
would not touch us. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

If you can get perfectly weaned from everything in the 
universe, and only united to God, then you can be able to 
count it real joy when you go through manifold tribulations. 
— Vanguard. 
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258 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must separate ourselves from all that is sinful, and 
suffer alone with God. We must go without the camp and 
die to sin and self. — Rev. B. Carradinc. 

We must break the grip of this world, and get into the 
battle line for God. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 



SERVICE. 



He who has the " mind of Christ " will have a worldwide 
love for humanity. — The Silent Evangelist. 

Do something every day for others and for God. — Chris- 
tian Missionary Alliance. 

The greatest life is the life of service, the life which gives, 
as well as receives ; the life, in short, that is moved by the 
Spirit of Christ. — Rev. Dan. B. Bruinmitt. 

O for the love that does not wait to be sent, but catches 
our Master's thought, anticipates His desires, and goes, un- 
sent, at the impulse of a loving heart, to do His bidding, and 
to meet His longing. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Are there no calls at the door of your heart to the service 
of your Redeemer ? — Theodore L. Cuylcr, D. D. 

Begin every day with Jesus Christ, and then, keeping step 
with Him, march on to duty over the roughest road that lies 
before you, and in the teeth of the hardest head-wind you 
may encounter. — Christian Work. 

Often the most useful Christians are those who serve their 
Master in little things. — Theodore L. Cuylcr, D. D. 

How blessed it is to be conscious of carrying God's bless- 
ing to another. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 259 

Christians are charged with the conversion of the world to 
Christ. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Let all seek to know the mind of the Spirit, keeping step 
with God, humbly and patiently pushing the battle. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

When Christ tells us what to do, and we obey Him, our 
work is no longer in vain. — Northwestern Christian Ad- 
vocate. 

Let us beware and seek only to glorify God in all things, 
by our consecration, our actions, and our ambitions. — 
/. W. S. 

It is our business to stand true and firm, and see that we 
are saved from sin, and help to save others. — Christian Wit- 
ness. 

Unless we trust and love God, He can not use us, and our 
life will be of little value. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The King's business must be attended to joyfully, and the 
soul that knows Him is eager to serve Him. — Rev. C. O. 
Moulton. 

Think nothing too little, nothing too low, to do lovingly 
for the sake of God. — E. P. Prosey. 

Mary's name is fragrant forever for the loving deed of 
a day. Do your best now. — Mattie D. Babcock. 

If you know God, trv to reveal Him to others. — Rev. 
Clarence B. Strouse. 

Settle your mind, fix your heart, make it your life busi- 
ness to serve God. — Nettie Peabody. 

Get a pure heart, and then seek to be a blessing to the 
poor, broken-hearted world. — Christian Witness. 

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to 
do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the rest. — Selected. 



260 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Freedom in Christ lifts us above bondage to any, and lets 
us enjoy the luxury of lovingly serving all. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

There is a prayer, uttered or unexpressed, that brings us 
face to face with God, and it is this, " Help me to heal the 
heart-break of humanity." — Frances E. Willard. 

Have you found out that it is harder to say " Yes " to God 
than it is to say " No " to the devil ? — Rev. Charles Boswell, 
D. D. 

Unless we serve God out of love, our service is a drudgery. 
— Christian Witness. 

To do something for God and humanity each day should 
be the aim of every Christian. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The truly Christian life takes as its motto : "As we have 
opportunity, let us do good unto all men." — C. A. Sahnond. 

The closer you live to God, the greater will be your desire 
to serve Him. — Selected. 

Enoch walked with God, but did not retire and separate 
himself from this life. — Flave. 

Never attempt one duty without God ; you may attempt 
ten thousand with Him. — Chimes. 

That which we do really for God is great, though it seems 
but a trifle in human eyes. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

It is not a matter of indifference with God what men ac- 
complish, provided their hearts are right. — Amos R. Wells. 

Jesus is honored by those who are at work for Him. — Se- 
lected. 

If you want a field of service for your Christ, you can 
find it anywhere. — Selected. 

The work you do for God lasts, earthly things perish. Get 
to working for God. — S. A. P. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 26 1 

O that every Christian heart would not only be willing, 
but would go immediately about the performance of God's 
work with that which he hath. — Estelle E. Piper. 

There is a blessed peace in looking for nothing but our 
daily task and our portion of Christ's cross, between this 
and the appointed time when we shall fall asleep in Him. — 
Bishop Wilberforce. 

Life was made for usefulness in God's service, and here 
He lengthens out the little thread of life and comes to us 
time after time, in one way and another, and looks for the 
fruitage — if it be for His good and His glory. — 5". A. P. 

Shine where you live, and be true to God. — Selected. 

We are redeemed to serve in willing sacrifice, for the sal- 
vation of the lost. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God asks for the faithful use of our talents, whether one 
or many. — Selected. 

We love to serve whom we love. — Selected. 

Do your work near to the great heart of Christ, and you 
will have the inspiration needed. — Selected. 

One man can accomplish wonders. — Bishop Fitzgerald. 

Every servant of God is a missionary, with the duty of 
delivering his appointed message, in cottage or palace. — 
Rev. T. C. Scott. 

My life has become a love service to God. — Rev. Joseph 
IJ. Smith. 

A man's place in the kingdom of Christ is measured by 
his capacity for self-sacrifice and willingness to serve. — Rev. 
J. J. N. Kenny. 

We are only cripples at best, but if we get on the right 
side of the divine One, the least among us will count ten 
every time. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



262 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

No labor is in vain which is wrought in the name of the 
Lord.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

We are responsible for what service God is able to do 
through us. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Let us be natural and trust God, and He will use all our 
natural gifts and powers as He desires. — Christian Witness. 

The child of God is blameless, but the work not faultless. 

— Selected. 

A man that walks with the Holy Ghost will never be idle. 

— Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

God's will comes to thee and me in daily circumstances, in 
little things equally as in great. — Paid Past nor. 

Be diligent in the life of faith, to do deeds of love. — E. B. 
Pusey. 

He who goes into public service without being tested and 
chastened, will, sooner or later, break down. — Selected. 

You might do a lot of things for Jesus if you would only 
try. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

Whilst we have the opportunity let us serve the Lord. — 
Muller. 

We often want to do things for Christ which we can not 
do, but God accepts the will for the deed, if we are sincere 
and do our best. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God has something for you to do, as well as something 
for you to believe. — Selected. 

When Jesus comes millions of Christians will be struck 
dumb at the littleness of what they have done for Him. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Yet a little while and our stewardship will be taken from 
us. At present we have the opportunity of serving the Lord 
with our time, our talents, our bodily strength, our gifts, and 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 263 

also with our property ; but shortly this opportunity may 
cease. — Midler. 

Because the will of Gocl is the glory of heaven, the doing 
of it is the blessedness of heaven. — Rev. Andrezv Murray. 

When men do anything for God, the very least thing, they 
never know where it will end nor what amount of work it 
will do for Him. — Faber. 

There is nothing more important than for every Christian 
to be 'faithful and earnest in the work that God has called 
him to do. — The American Illustrated Methodist. 

God's love draws us His way, yet He will never coerce us. 
He will have willing servants or none. — Rev. Dan. Brum- 
mitt. 

God uses men everywhere to carry out His eternal pur- 
pose, but when God does His best work He needs the best 
men to help him. — Rev! Frank A. Doty. 

We should desire wisdom that we may serve God effect- 
ually, more than long life or wealth. — Dr. G. P. Pardington. 

Life spent in the service of God grows sweeter as the 
days come and go. — Selected. 

God gives His people active minds for active service ; but 
He wants the activity and the service all for Him. — S. A. P. 

In that great day, no honor done to Christ on earth shall 
be forgotten. — The Helper. 

Largeness of heart shows itself in our work. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Begin for God, and He will enlarge your power. — Dr. 
Carradine. 

No sincere effort for Christ can fail. — Selected. 

Every one who is filled with the life of God has the go in 
him. — Dr. Henry Wilson. 



264 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

If we are earnestly striving to serve God, we are serving 
Him when we do not think of it. — F. W. Faber. 

Times of refreshing come to us in loving service for 
others. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Every worker for God should have a sense of a life mis- 
sion, and go forth saying, " I must do the works of Him that 
sent me." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The only thing that can fulfill the law, is the serving of 
God out of love for Him. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

That we are alive to-day is proof positive that God has 
something for us to do to-day. — Lindsay. 

As the fire never went out on the altar of burnt offering, 
so Christians ought to be continually engaged in the service 
of God. — Cowdry. 

God has sent each one of us into the world to extend the 
bounds of His kingdom. — Mr. Preston. 

The world's want to-day is not so much for scholars, 
politicians, generals, and admirals, as for men who, like 
Jesus, and in the spirit of Jesus, go about doing good — Rev. 
B. Carradine. 

God saved you to save and serve. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Try to do some good each day. — C. E. Cornell. 

All true service costs something. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Partnership with the Lord will bring in the age of applied 
Christianity. — Willis W. Cooper. 

It is not the amount we do for others, but the spirit in 
which we do it that counts with God. — Christian Witness. 

We need to believe in the presence of God with us, and 
His power in us. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Obedience for to-day ; faith for to-morrow ; and let the 
Guide supply that knowledge which we lack. — /. O. R. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 265 

The works of faith are good works. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Much prayer and much activity should go together. — 
Christian Witness. 

We are not to please others just for the honor to ourselves, 
but to help others along. — Dr. Levy. 

God wants people that are going to bless other people, 
even at the expense of their own appetites and desires. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

He serves best who serves with a heart overflowing with 
divine love. — Silent Evangelist. 

Jesus never seemed hurried, and yet how busy ! — Rev. 
M. W. Knapp. 

In Christ's name we are to work, to pray, to suffer, to 
rejoice, and at last to go home. — M. D. Babcock. 

When we do our best, Jesus has a large place for us in 
His kingdom. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

Unless our work for God is prompted by the Holy Spirit, 
it will vanish in the judgment day like hay, wood, and 
stubble in the flames. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

He best serves God who serves man. — Christian Witness. 

He who follows the sense of duty as God's messenger to- 
day, will find on to-morrow that two angels have come to 
guide him on his way. — Martineau. 

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and for 
others. — F. W. Robertson. 

To serve joyously is to help purify and increase the good 
of the world. — 7. R. Campbell. 

Happy is he who is about his Master's business. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

God expects us to live a life well pleasing in His sight — 
in daily contact with our fellow-men. — K. J. Mosier. 



266 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The essence of true service for Christ consists in the sense 
of our personal value and responsibility to Him. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

I used to hold Christ with one hand and work with the 
other. Now I let Christ hold me, and I have two hands to 
work with. — Christian. 

In our prayers we should make large requests, and in our 
work should look for large results. — Northwestern Christian 
Advocate. 

I am not losing the desire to put in my best for God, but 
instead of that it is increasing. — Rev. John Pennington. 

Scatter your sunshine, scatter your love, scatter your joy, 
scatter your peace, scatter your service. — Rev. John Pen- 
nington. 

It is better to do a little with prayer and in the Spirit, than 
to be busy with many things in our own strength. — Dr. A. 
Bonar. 

No one should be discouraged because he is a person of 
one talent. Let him improve that, and he will certainly pass 
into the higher ranks. — Rev. David D. Thompson. 

We do our best work for God when we cease from our 
own works. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

I can afford to go into a hard place, if it is going to bless 
some one forever. — Rev. Scth C. Rees. 

True love seeks to express itself in actions as well as 
words. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

God has made us to bless and protect each other. — Se- 
lected. 

Let us go out and mother the world, by satisfying it, and 
clothing it with garments of peace, lulling it to rest. — Bishop 
Wilson. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 267 

We never start to do anything for Jesus but what He 
gives us an "All hail." — M. G. Standley. 

Let us work and pray in a way that will please God. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Do your duty and trust God to send the seed you sow " a 
body as it hath pleased him." — Alexander McLaren. 

God needs you, for by you He is to save the world. — New 
Voice. 

It is worth all this world to serve God one day. — A colored 
brother. 

Our time is a talent given us by God for some good end, 
and it is misspent and lost when it is not employed according 
to His design. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The greatest work God ever accomplishes is through indi- 
viduals. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Everything God gives you to do, you must do as well as 
you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what 
He may want you to do next. — George McDonald. 

A Christian has attended to only a small part of his busi- 
ness when he has finished saying his prayers. — Rev. Grover 
C. Clark. 

We must see in the Lord Jesus our infinite divine re- 
sources in the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit — all the 
equipments we need in every kind of ministry. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

If we live to make God a name, He will deal richly with 
us.— /. W. S. 

God never defaults ; but He requires that we prove our 
faith by our works. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Paul never looks at service as duty, but looks on it even as 
grace. — Dr. John Robertson. 



268 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The busy workers are the men God wants. — Selected. 

It is vision first ; see Christ, and then fish. — Dr. John Rob- 
ertson. 

All of us are shepherds in our way. — Dr. Lewis Albert 
Banks. 

God loves a cheerful doer, as well as a cheerful giver. — 
Sunday School Times. 

The Lord needs your little touches, needs your little 
prayers. — Dr. John Robertson. 

True humility and faithful service will have a sure reward. 
— Mary J. Carter. 

God honors those who honor Him. — /. IV. S. 

Lord make us ships with two hatchways — one to take in 
cargo, and one to give it out. — Prayer of a Christian sea- 
man 

All mountains become plains as we keep looking steadily 
into God's face. — Bertha Schrack. 

Linked on to God, even the humblest of His children can 
do great things. — Mrs. E. E. Williams. 

All our acts, great and small, must have God's glory in 
view, for their end. — Rev. J. A. Wood, D. D. 

Faith gets the most ; humility keeps the most ; love works 
the most. — Selected. 

There is a sublimity in the humblest lot, when accepted 
and fulfilled for God with patient submission and conse- 
crated love. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Like Jesus, we must be in some sense " about the Father's 
business," or our lives are as good as lost. — Sunday School 
Times. 

No work for God is ever lost. — Northwestern Christian 
Advocate. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 269 

God is still using the lowly hands, the humble implements 
of toil, and the things which lie next to each of us to accom- 
plish His work and glorify His name. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God wants us all to do something. He does not want any 
idle children in His family. — Selected. 

When God calls one to any service He will always give 
all help needed.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Whosoever we are we may do something for Christ. Some 
can speak for Him, more can sing for Him, more still can 
smile for Him. — Rev. Henry W. Little. 

In God's service nothing is in vain. He gives prompting, 
He gives guidance, He gives strength, He gives help, He 
gives reward. — Sunday School Times. 

What we do should be for men's good and God's glory. — - 
Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

We are to live in the world, pouring into it the fragrance 
of the love of Christ. — Rev. J. R. Miller. 

Even if we are not ministers, we should do all the good 
we can. — Selected. 

We have to get wisdom from above, get victory by taking 
the lowest place, and pray one for another. — Mrs. Lamson. 

Our love to Christ is best proved by doing things that 
please Him, and help others. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Know your own soul, satisfied, then you will be able to 
help others. — Selected. 

No work done for Christ perishes ; no action that helps to 
mold the deathless mind of a saint of God is ever lost. — John 
Baird, D. D. 

Long life is desirable, but God counts the quality, not the 
quantity of our service for Him. — Rev. G. P. Pardington, 
Ph.D. 



270 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The more the Lord does for us, the more we can do for 
Him.— 5. A. P. 

We spoil our work and are led into by-paths because our 
eyes are not firmly fixed on Christ. — Selected. 

When you serve God on purpose you will enjoy it. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

We need God's help that we may be strong for service. — 
Selected. 

God is not dependent upon us, but just gives us the oppor- 
tunity of giving a " cup of cold water." — Fannie Foster. 

Now, in some way, we can live and work and act for 
Christ. — Bishop E. S. James. 

While the servant can not give such gifts as his Master 
gave, he can give with the mind of the Master — freely, 
gladly, unselfishly, and under the constraining power of 
divine love. — Hyderabad Deccan. 

We come to love people through what we do for them, 
rather than through what they do for us. — Sunday School 
Times. 

Do not gauge yourself by others' failures, nor their suc- 
cess ; but let all you do be done to the glory of God. — The 
Silent Evangelist. 

The times when we have received the greatest blessings 
have been when we have set out to help others. — W. F. 
Ward, 

Let us be found at our Master's work when the summoner 
calls on us with the message, " Come up hither, and behold 
things that shall be hereafter." — Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

If you would be an efficient worker in Christ's cause, faith- 
fully and promptly do the things nearest your heart and 
hand. — The Silent Evangelist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Expect great things from God, and attempt great things 
for God.— Rev. S. E. Wishard, D. D. 

A Christian is only a seed-sower of the Word of God. — £\ 
A. P. 



SIN. 



God has nothing against man but sin. — John Vance. 

The thoughtful man will not sin. Thought will bring a 
man to the point where he will cry to Jesus to save him from 
the sin business. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Fear to sin, and you need not fear to die. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

There will always be some dangerous charm in sin for 
you, till God becomes the fascination of your mind. — Way of 
Faith. 

If your home is unhappy, or you are, sin is the cause of 
it. — Louis T. Mitchell. 

Indwelling sin is Satan's capital. — Rev. James Caughey. 

Every sin has the germ of hell-fire in it. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Sin always ruins the soul's eyesight. — Selected. 

God wants us to come out of sin. — Rev. John Thompson, 

O flee sin, dear soul, it is too risky to continue. — Dr. 
Broughton. 

It was the knowledge of the awful and eternal con- 
sequences of sin that moved the heart of God with such 
infinite pity that He was willing to sacrifice the brightest 
jewel of heaven, even His only begotten Son, to save men 
from sin. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



272 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Sin is awful and ruinous. — Rev. A. B. Riggs. 

The least sin will impair the spiritual vision. — Christian 
Witness. 

It is the sin nature that keeps us from wanting the Lord 
or His work. — Selected. 

Heaven is a place of complete prohibition of sin. That is 
why it is heaven. — Mrs. Carrie Nation. 

God alone can show a man what inbred sin is. — Rev. G. 
D. Watson. 

Sin means destruction to those who live in it and practise 
it, if they don't forsake it and repent. — Selected. 

You can not be saved from sin while you hold on to it. 
You must abandon it. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

The secret of all sin and wickedness is the will. — Selected. 

No sin or sinner can get into heaven. — Rev. C. E. 
Cornell. 

God is a Prohibitionist, not only on the liquor question, 
but on every form of the sin question. — Rev. Aura Smith. 

If Christ can save us from one sin, He can save us from 
all sins. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The bondage of sin is the worst kind of bondage ; so the 
freedom from sin is the best kind of freedom. — Rev. C. J. 
Foivler. 

The sinfulness of sin should be so revealed that instead of 
excusing and pleading for it, souls will turn from it in utter 
loathing and cry out, " O wretched man that I am ! who shall 
deliver me from this body of death ? " — Old-Time Religion. 

Sin is an envious old fellow, jealous and cruel. The sea 
lion, who swallows virtue. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

The greatest sinners are those who feel sin the least of all. 
— Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 273 

Can God regard with favor or willing tolerance in us, the 
very thing that changed angels of glory into demons of hell ? 
— Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

What right have we to say that we can not live without 
sin when we have " not yet resisted unto blood ? " — Rev. 
Etta E. Shaw. 

Until sin is recognized and repented of, real peace can 
not be maintained. — Mrs. May Mabbette Anderson. 

Sin reacts upon the soul and makes all the inner fountain 
peevish and bitter. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

No sin is small before God. — Mrs. May Mabbette Ander- 
son. 

The Holy Ghost will show us our carnality. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

The carnal mind acts the same in all ages. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

No sin can be considered a light thing. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

God is after your sin. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

No man has gone so deep in sin but what Jesus can save 
him. — Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

Were it not for sin, we could all be in sweet communion 
with God. — John Vance. 

The fact is, that sin is the most unmanly thing in the 
world. You never were made for sin and selfishness ; you 
were made for love and obedience. — /. G. Holland. 

Many do not like to be told that they have in their nature 
that which needs the searching out of God's spirit. — Dr. 
Steele. 

The fulness of God is never found where sin reigns. — 
Selected. 
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274 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The worst thing about sin is that it takes us away from 
communion with God, the only source of true spiritual life. 
— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Sin is the great trouble causer of the universe. — Rev. 
Byron Rees. 

You will never be natural, as long as there is sin on you, 
or in you. — Rev. D. F. Brooks. 

Sin is the cause of all our grief and tears. It has broken 
more hearts than any other thing. — Dr. Levy. 

There is nothing to be afraid of but sin. It must be 
gotten rid of or it will ruin us. — S. A. P. 

Sin will end prayer or prayer will end sin. — Selected. 

As long as you hug sin, it will sap your life. — Rev. Byron 
J. Rees. 

The only way to get sin out of our lives, is to get it out of 
our hearts. — Christian Standard. 

If you have any sin, no matter how small, it is an obstruc- 
tion to your getting hold of God.— Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

Sin stupefies the conscience at the same time that it 
corrupts the heart and perverts the will. — Godet. 

My brother, my sister, if you have any sin about you, you 
are in danger of losing your soul. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

A sick man, in order to rightly value a cure, needs to 
understand the nature and danger of his disease. Just so 
fallen humanity, in order to rightly appreciate the plan of 
salvation, must have a knowledge of sin and its conse- 
quences. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

There is something in the truly heavenly spirit that can 
not sin. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

In Christ, you are dead to sin. — Rev. Andrew Murray. 

Sin begins with temptation. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 275 

A man's love to God is the measure of his hatred to sin. — 
Rev. J. W. Hill. 

One effect of sin is the injury done the moral understand- 
ing. — Selected. 

Nothing with the taint of sin upon it will enter heaven.— 
Rev. W. M. Crawford. 

If there had been no sin in Eden, there would have been no 
cross on Calvary. — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

Sin is a subtle thing, it winds itself around a man's soul, 
and finally damns him if he does not get away from its 
snare. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

Every sinner is condemned by the law of God. — Rev. J. 
D. Marsh. 

The most awful kind of captivity is the captivity of sin. — 
Nettie Peabody. 



SINCERITY. 

Let us deal honestly with God. — Mrs. May Mabbette 
Anderson. 

God sees the real nobility in and behind all sincere effort. 
— Rev. A. H. Tuttle. 

It is a trait among real saints to be most intensely real, 
regardless of appearances. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The true saint plants his feet upon the solid rock, and 
can not endure the semblance of fraud. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

We want above all other things, religious reality. — Rev. 
H. C. Petty. 

Always remember that sincerity is the very soul of salva- 
tion. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 



276 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



SOBERNESS OF MIND. 

Surely all, to be followers of the Lord, ought to be " re- 
deemed from vain conversation." — Christian Standard. 

Time is too short, death is too sure, hell is too awful, and 
people are going there in too great droves, to admit of 
trifling on our part. — Rev. SetJi C. Rees. 

There is no jesting in heaven or hell. — Baxter. 

" Let not your cheerful spirit lead you into levity." — 
Christian Harvester. 

Every idle word must confront the judgment. — Rev. E. 
I. D. Pepper. 

Useless words are idle words. — Selected. 

Words that do not awaken, or cheer, or comfort, or in- 
struct, or strengthen, are idle words. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Where there is a lack of prayer, there will be a spirit of 
trifling and lightness. — God's Revivalist. 



SORROW. 



In every tear you shed you will find a rainbow, as soon 
as the light of Jesus shines upon it. — Dr. G. D. ll'atson. 

When we have sorrow, or when we are appalled by things 
that have happened, we should go and tell Jesus. — North- 
western Christian Advocate. 

Christ taught that those who mourn are in reality the 
blessed of the world. — BisJiop Henry Y. Satcrlee. 

Tears that turn toward God will shine for His glory. — 
Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 277 

Sorrow widens the soul. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Human biography is rilled with instances that show that 
the men and the women of great world-wide hearts have 
been those who were the children of deep sorrow. — Rev. G. 
D. Watson. 

Jesus went by a way of sorrows to His glory, and His dis- 
ciples must go in the like path. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Suffering saints are living seed. — C. H. Spurgeon. 

Jesus not only baptized this earth with His blood, but by 
His tears — Selected. 

Christ is everything to the Christian — in the time of 
trouble. — Dr. Talmage. 

No Calvary is hard to endure while Jesus suffers by my 
side. — Dalton Lempis Ceylon. 

When trouble comes, may we be able to meet it in the 
spirit of Jesus. — The Congregationalist. 

The power to suffer is measured by the power to love. 
It is found at its best in God Himself. — Bishop E. R. 
Hendricks. 

Look unto Jesus even through your tears. Tears are tele- 
scopes. I have seen farther through my tears than I have 
through my smiles. — Rev. Joseph Parker. 

God's people are like birds : they sing best in cages ; they 
sing best when in deepest trouble. — Spurgeon. 

Sorrow can find in the heart of our Lord its complete 
comfort. — Methodist Recorder. 

To me there is something sacred and sweet in all suffering ; 
it is so much akin to the Man of Sorrows. — McCheyene. 

When we have the church in sympathy with the Head of 
the church, in suffering, all the mean, poor, petty things that 
measure service will be done away with ; then again will we 



278 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

hear the rushing mighty winds of Pentecost and see the 
cloven tongues of fire. — Rev. Campbell Morgan. 

We have no sorrow that we must bear alone. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

Sanctified sorrow exalts the soul, and will enhance your 
eternal reward. — Selected. 

It is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that enables us to 
receive the baptism of suffering. — Way of Faith. 



SOUL HUNGER. 

The human soul hungers for God as the body hungers 
for food. — Northzvestern Christian Advocate. 

Hunger for Christ outrunneth faith ; I miss faith more 
than love. — Samuel Rutherford. 

Our soul hungers for every part of Jesus. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

God makes every heart hungry at some time or other, to 
know Him as its Father. — S. A. P. 

There is something in man that reaches out after God. — 
Selected. 

Where there is a hungry heart, Jesus will find it. — Rev. 
H. C. Morrison. 

The reason people are not satisfied is because they haven't 
got God. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

You will never find God until you want Him more than 
anything else. — Rev. M. G. Standley. 

An unearthly desire for God and righteousness will bring 
an unearthly blessing. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 279 

Our God is a jealous God, and meets on intimate terms 
only those who desire Him more than anything else in the 
world. — M. E. Howell. 



SOUL WINNING. 

It takes the grace of God to do personal work for God. — 
Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

People sin and reject God, but instead of giving them up, 
He tries them again. — Selected. 

The sanctifi cation of one soul means the conversion of 
ten. — John Wesley. 

Conversion puts the impulse to " go " into every believer. 
— Selected. 

Abiding in Christ is the true secret of saving men. — 
Christian Uplook. 

Any organization in church life that does not make for 
the salvation of men is a fungous growth, and the sooner 
we drop it off the better. — G. Campbell Morgan. 

If we fail to rescue men and women from sin, God writes 
us down as failures. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

All the followers of Jesus will become fishers of men. — 
Selected. 

If we have a revival of prayer and soul burden, we will 
have a revival of salvation. — Rev. Mrs. M. J. Harris. 

There are prayers that break the backs of words ; they are 
too heavy for any human language to carry. — Spurgeon. 

If we would make people want to be Christians, we must 
show them the beauty of Christ in ourselves. — Northwest- 
ern Christian Advocate. 



280 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must learn to value the souls of men and work there- 
unto. — Selected. 

God needs holy people with fire-baptized hearts to go out 
among the sinful and win them to righteousness and heaven. 
— Rev. J. D. Kelsey. 

Every child of God may be a soul winner. — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

I believe the great danger of these days is not of asking 
people too often to decide for Christ. — Rev. F. E. Clark. 

Reproduction and increase is the law of life whether 
vegetable, animal or spiritual. God designs his spiritual 
church to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth 
with spiritual children. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Do not veil the invitation to become Christ's follower. — ■ 
Rev. F. E. Clark. 

God help us to see the value of a human soul and be able 
to touch it. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The greatest thing a man can do is not to win a fortune, 
not to win knowledge, but to win a soul to God. — Rev. J. 0. 
Wilson, D. D. 

Many are busy with " church-work " — but how many are 
winning souls ? — Etta E. Shaw. 

I am often humiliated when I think of the many times and 
the many opportunities in my life which I have wasted and 
not used for the winning of souls to Christ. — Bishop Mc- 
Cabe. 

Determine to win somebody for Jesus. — Rev. Theodore L. 
Cuyler, D. D. 

You may be deficient in talent, yet draw to Christ one 
who will become eminent in grace and service. — Christian 
Standard. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 28 1 

Jesus was always alert to win men. — Rev. G. H. Trever, 
D. D. 

Sympathy is essential to win souls. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

God is saying to every one who will listen, " I want you 
to be a fisher of men." — Nettie Peabody. 

As consistently might we expect God to perpetuate the oak 
by the direct creation of acorns as to expect children to be 
given to the church without travail of soul. " When Zion 
travails she shall bring forth," is as much the law of spirit- 
ual life as that human life is the result of human parentage. 
— Old-Time Religion. 

The Lord Jesus wants us to be good sailors, and if we 
do not learn to brave the tempest without sea-sickness, He 
can not send us out with the life-saving crew. — Sister 
Cowan. 

Kind tones of voice should be invariably used in address- 
ing the unsaved. — Rev. J. 0. Peck. 

O, the souls we suffer to wander from God, and all be- 
cause we are so wanting in love towards them. — Sunday 
School Times. 

To win souls, we need a greater measure of the spirit of 
prayer. — Rev. F. M. Cox. 

We must deal with the sinner as God has dealt with us. 
Any severity or assumed superiority will repel, not attract 
them.— Rev. J. O. Peck. 

Have you a longing heart to bring somebody to Christ ? — ■ 
Silent Evangelist. 

Our Lord did not call disciples to cultivate fish but to catch 
them. — Rev. Ernest Lee Thompson. 

If we are going to take souls, we must preach for effect, 
and aim at something definite. — Rev. F. W. Cox. 



282 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Let us therefore regard the work of getting men to yield 
their hearts to God, above all other work. — Christian 
Witness. 

The five classes of people whom God uses to win souls : 
First, the foolish things to confound the wise. Second, the 
weak things to confound the mighty. Third, the base 
things. Fourth, the despised things. Fifth, and the nothings 
or nobodys. (i Cor. i: 7-28.) Certainly you come under 
one of these heads. These are God's D. D.'s and LL. D.'s 
of the gospel life-boat. — Rev. F. W. Cox. 

God never forces spiritual travail upon an unwilling 
church, but the Holy Ghost at all times intercedes in the 
hearts of those who live close to God and who sufficiently 
comprehend and desire this intercession of the Spirit, for an 
increase of the power of God to be revealed in the salva- 
tion of souls. — Old-Time Religion. 

If you are a holy man you will win men to God. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

A list of one's unsaved acquaintances, and daily prayer 
for their conversion, persistently followed by words in season 
fitly spoken, will prove very fruitful. — Henry Elliott Mot I, 
D. D. 

The man who wins souls is the man who most pleases 
God.— Mrs. C. IV. Scott. 

We need the faith which believes in the conversion of the 
worst of sinners. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

No matter what men may say of us, God writes us down 
a failure if we do not succeed in getting others ready to see 
Him, and if to see God, then to be holy. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

At home or abroad, preachers who love not, win not. — Dr. 
Daniel Steele. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 283 

It is blessed to be able to get on the sinner's side, and help 
him up to God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

May God give us a divine understanding, so we can help 
others. — Rev. J. R. Downer. , 

If we are not following apostolic lines fully, we can not 
get souls like apostles. — Samuel David. 

Let us throw out the lifeline to all the perishing around 
us. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

In dealing with awakened souls, nothing can take the 
place of personal contact. — Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

We must come to men not with our love, but with Christ's. 
— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We should sow the seed of the gospel in the hearts of men 
and then go around and see if it is sprouting. — Selected. 

Never despair of a soul so long as you can plead with God 
for thaf soul, or strive to bring it into view of Christ. — Dr. 
Cuyler. 

You can never begin to calculate the ultimate results 
flowing from the effort to win men from selfishness, and to 
establish them in the righteous life. — Rev. Howard Allen 
Bridgman, D. D. 

Let us be strong, never fainting, for we shall reap, " if we 
faint not."—/. W. S. 

We can teach sinners the way to Christ by personal 
approach with them. — Selected. 

" He that winneth souls is wise." Lord give us winning 
wisdom. — God's Revivalist. 

God help us to be at our very best for Him, to be at our 
very best in saving the lost. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

It takes no more time to ask a man about his soul than 
about his health; but it will require more love and prayer 



284 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

and holy tact and soul-wakefulness to do it with profit, and 
these the soul winner must have. — S. L. Drcnglc (Lieut. 
Col. Salvation Army). 

The harvests of the earth are ripe unto the reapers. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

Where is my love for souls, if I will not push out every- 
where to save them? — John Wesley. 

God's plan of increasing the kingdom by multiplication 
instead of addition makes every Christian a preacher. — Rev. 
Dan. B. Bmmmitt. 

The need of this age is a great revival of interest and 
enthusiasm for the souls of men. — S. M. Vernon, D. D. 

You can win souls all the time, by just witnessing to the 
time that God saved you. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Are you a soul winner? — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

My sole responsibility as a soul-saving agent was to live 
in such an attitude to God that I should be constantly filled 
with the Holy Ghost. — Rev. S. A. Keen. 

The Holy Ghost will use in winning souls any and every 
heart that is ready and willing to be so used according to 
its capacity. And for this God can use large hearts coupled 
with small intellectual powers far better than large powers 
of intellect, coupled with little faith and love. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

The man who loves the coming of the Lord, is the man 
who brings others to the Lord. — Dr. Henry Wilson. 

If God could get people to look on the fields, He would 
have this world evangelized in a very short time. — Rev. 
Kilbourne. 

If you are a silent Christian, if you are doing nothing for 
the salvation of men, if you are giving no witness to the 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 285 

world, you are a stranger to the heart of Christ. — Rev. A. 
B. Simpson. 

Awake, awake, young people, the harvest field is white, 
souls are going into eternity unsaved ! Do something for lost 
souls, do something for God. Begin to-day. — Rev. C. E. 
Cornell. 

Speak to all about you and spare not. God will bear 
witness to His own truth. — John Wesley. 

" The fields are white unto the harvest," but unless we 
" tarry " and start out with the Holy Ghost, and honor the 
Holy Ghost, and live in the Holy Ghost, we will fail. — Rev. 
Chas. Stalker. 

Therefore in seeking God's blessing upon His work, let us 
aim to lead our fellow workers to the spirit of faith in God, 
and then their united faith will be able to claim that which 
we are asking for. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God uses every effort possible to induce sinful men to 
forsake evil and seek Him. — Intermediate Lesson Leaf. 

God give me souls, or take my soul. — Rev. George White- 
field. 

The command " Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, 
for they are already white unto the harvest," is as fresh after 
it has been spoken these centuries as it was then; and cer- 
tainly if the harvest was white eighteen centuries ago, the 
wheat must be dead ripe to-day. — Rev. Chas. Stalker. 

To know how to ripen a soul for God's blessing is an art ; 
all may have it. Have you got it ? — Rev. E. S. Dunham. 

To win one soul is a reward for a lifetime's toil. — 
Christian Standard. 

The tears of the sower and the songs of the reaper shall 
mingle together in joy bye-and-bye. — Selected. 



286 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There is a divine gift for soul saving, and God has it for 
all His followers. — Selected. 

We never get nearer to the heart of God than when we 
labor for the salvation of men. — Rev. Lyman Pcttit. 

One method of reaching the masses is to be in sympathy 
and spirit with them. — Rev. M. D. Collins. 

Livingstone died by the lone route, because he loved others 
who knew not the Saviour. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

We must pray for all men, and by kindness which no one 
can long resist, seek to bring those who oppose into such a 
frame of mind as will make the gospel a welcome message. 
— Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Prayer for the unconverted will warm our hearts toward 
them, and will prepare the way for us to approach them. — 
Henry Elliott Mott, D. D. 

Unless we prevail with God in prayer, we can not expect 
to prevail with the unconverted in personal work. — Henry 
Elliott Mott, D. D. 

In this world we should lay up treasures for heaven. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Now is the time to weep over, and pray for, lost men. — 
Christian Witness. 

If we are to win men for God, we must love them. — 
Ernest Lee Thompson. 

A personal Pentecost will help the soul winner to over- 
come timidity, to give utterance with a holy boldness and 
to overcome and make effective the word he speaks. — John 
S. Mercer. 

God's kingdom is unlike earthly kingdoms ; the greatest 
are those who serve others the most. — Rev. George P. 
Pardington, Ph. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 287 

We need the Spirit of Jesus, so we can weep over sinners. 
— Rev. J. H. Flower. 

Let us bring men face to face with God. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

We can never reach a soul to save it until we get the 
Spirit Christ has. — Selected. 

We will never reach the hearts of men and women until 
we get down where they live. — Rev. J. H. Flozver. 

God in all the world is saving people one by one. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

The great object of God is saving the lost. — Bishop 
Wilson. 

May we have grace to run after people — to get them 
saved. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 



SPIRITUALITY. 

What we want to-day is a high-grade intellectualism, 
coupled with a high-grade spirituality. — Rev. H. C. Petty. 

A spiritual nature can be free and honest, because its 
foundation stones are laid in truth and it knows that 
nothing else holds. — Lucy Larcom. 

When conscience is sensitive and the will submissive and 
the life consistent, there is no doubt about one's spirituality. 
— Bishop Vincent. 

Your spiritual nature is just as real to you as your body 
is. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

You can not stay spiritual unless ycm. are much with 
Jesus. — Rev. B. Carradine. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



SPIRITUAL VISION. 



To get a clear view of the Son of Righteousness, see that 
the windows of your soul are kept clean. — Christian 
Standard. 

A healthy Christian has a good organ of sight. He can see 
things afar off. — Rev. E. A. Fergcrson. 

No one can lose his taste for the world until he has a 
glimpse of his Master. — Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 

To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. 
— Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The greatest event in any man's life is when his eyes 
are opened to the glory of God. — Merrie E. Gales, LL. D. 

The pure in heart see God and His meaning, when others 
see nothing. — Rev. Franklin Noble. 

By nature we are blind and are unable to see God. We 
are deaf — not hearing or knowing the voice of God. And 
our hearts are dead in sin so that we can not love or com- 
prehend Him. Having eyes, we see not ; having ears we 
hear not ; and having hearts, we understand not. But being 
born again, our eyes are opened by a miracle of divine 
grace not only to see God but also to behold His wonderful 
works to the children of men. — Old-Timc Religion. 

Let us all ask God to open our eyes and give us spiritual 
discernment. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

God grant us all a heavenly vision, such as will inspire us 
to nobler and more effective effort than ever before. — God's 
Revivalist. 

Whoever lives for this world alone is, as a matter of 
course, indifferent, if not wholly blind, to the world of 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 289 

spirit and to heaven as the ultimate home of the soul. — 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

The pure in heart see God everywhere, and in everything. 
— Rev. J. W. Hill. 

People never come to see things as they really are until 
they see them in the white light of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. 
Morrison. 

If thou dost constantly draw thine impulse, thy life, the 
whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, then shalt thou 
see God and Jesus face to face. — Spnrgeon. 

We can only see God as we become like Him. — Rev. J. W. 
Hill. 

One glimpse of Jesus will pay for all we have gone through 
with here. — Rev. Bausman. 

The soul with the power of spiritual interpretation, sees 
leagues ahead. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



STEADFASTNESS. 

I have learned to anchor myself in God, instead of feeling. 
— Mr. Hayes. 

We will never amount to much until we get anchored to 
Jesus. — Rev. Hill. 

To retain the grace of God is much more than to gain 
it. — John Wesley. 

Go to the Word of God if you would have rootedness. — 
Herrick Johnson. 

Love of Jesus is the motive that subdues selfishness ; and 
loyalty to Jesus holds us as a stout root holds a tree amid the 
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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



blasts of winter's tempest or under the summer's parching 
droughts. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

Keep the heart loyal to God ; be true and steadfast and 
unmovable, firm as a rock. — James Stolbcrt. 

Cease to be pulled to either one side or the other, and 
walk every inch erect for God. — Nettie Peabody. 

The agony of Gethsemane confronted Jesus, but He could 
not turn His steadfast face. — Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock. 



STRENGTH. 

God's greatness can meet life's greatest difficulties. — 
Selected. 

There is great strength in a life of trust in God. — S. A. P. 

Poise of soul is strength. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

One with God is stronger than a multitude without God. — 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Nobody can put you down if your mind is stayed upon 
God. — Rev. John Norbcrry. 

God's strength flows into the human life as the tide. — Rev. 
James L. Vance. 

It takes a strong soul to endure great adversity without 
giving up in despair. — Rev. G. D. JVatson. 

We have abundant assurance that we shall receive all the 
strength we need to perform any duty God allots to us. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Trials and temptations do not weaken us, but they do 
show us where we are weak, that we may become strong. — 
Rev. H. W. Weshvood. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 291 

God's people can be pure in heart and yet go from strength 
to strength. — Alfred Higgs. 

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength. — 
Rev. C. H. Spurge on. 

But what is this strength of Christ that comes to us? It 
is His character, His strength, His purity, His truth, His 
mercifulness, in one word, His holiness that is the inner 
strength. — Phillips Brooks. 

The strength of God's people is absolutely dependent 
upon their being cabled to God. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

" Be strong, be strong," — how the Bible echoes with the 
inspiring command ! — Anna Frances Burham. 



SUBMISSION. 

As Thou wilt, what Thou wilt, when Thou wilt. — Thomas 
a Kempis. 

To see God in everything and above everything will make 
it easy to bear with resignation and overcoming faith the 
hardest trials of life. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The surrendered soul can believe God's Word. — God's 
Revivalist. 

Before God can launch us out into the breadth and sweet- 
ness of His service and entrust to us great things for 
Himself, we must be perfectly subdued in every part of 
our nature to His will, and the disposition of His mind. — 
The Silent Evangelist. 

We must set our will as a flint to give Christ a chance 
to save us from self. — Mrs. J. F. Willing. 



292 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Let us get subdued in every way and in everything; so 
subdued that we can keep still in God and see Him work out 
the great bright thoughts of His eternal mind in our lives. 

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are 
utterly surrendered to Him. — Hannah Whitehall Smith. 

We must take God's gifts in God's ways, although His 
ways are not always as we would wish. — Laura A. Gardner. 

Give God a chance and see what He will do. — Rev. 
BeVier. 

There is only room for one to rule upon the throne of the 
heart, and self must disappear before God will reign. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

" Thy will be done " is the keynote to which every 
prayer must be tuned. — A. J. Gordon. 

If we get in the will of the Lord, we will make everything 
bend to the will of the Lord. — Rev. Robinson. 

If you are going to be a Christian, you must purpose to 
serve God away down in your heart. — D. L. Moody. 

Spend the rest of your days in submitting to Christ and 
you will soon be able to tell people for their great good 
what Christ can do for a soul that rests in Him. — Bishop 
J. H. Vincent. 

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used 
in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender 
of himself to God. He must consecrate and then concen- 
trate. — D. L. Moody. 

The unteachable — do not teach themselves nor others. 
The governable govern. — Rev. Thos. K. Dotv. 

It took Phoebe Palmer ten years to get her surrender 
complete. But after that the world heard from her. — Rev. 
Jones. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 293 

When you got saved you had to sign a blank and let God 
fill it in. — Rev. Compton. 

People who understand the Word of God and themselves, 
always are willing to accept God's conditions. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

O beloved, submission to God's will is among the greatest 
graces.— Sarah A. Cook. 

God never uses any one very much until He breaks him 
all to pieces. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God be praised that I find no rebellion in my heart to His 
blessed will. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

When I surrendered all, then the eternal God took hold 
of me. — Clara Boyd. 

That man obtains his will of God, whose will is subjected 
to God. — Rev. Wm. Seeker. 

Have you an amen in your soul to the will of God ? — John 
Pennington. 

The chief thing is to stop all contention with the Lord. — 
James Madge, D. D. 

It is safest to let the will of God rule in your life, — bring- 
ing your own will always into quiet submission. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

Our hearts must be so submissive that God's weak 
children may come to us and instruct us in the way of life. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

The altar is the place of the soul's last extremity. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

Trust God's wisdom and gladly submit to His discipline, 
and He will never fail you. — Lieut. Col. S. L. Brengle. 

Happy are the people who let the Lord come and break up 
every plan that is not divinely born. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 



294- SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

" Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty " says 
the scripture ; not liberty for us to do as we please, but 
liberty for God to do as He pleases in us. — A. J. Gordon. 

The peace of our soul consists in an absolute resignation to 
the will of God. — Rev. James Mudge, D. D. 

When our willingness and the Lord's willingness meet, a 
great work will be done. — Selected. 

Keep step with the working of the Holy Spirit, and be 
thorough in your surrender to God. — Mrs. Brodie. 

Do not worry over a single failure or blunder or weak- 
ness. Commit all to Jesus, and trust Him to work out His 
will in you, and then do not flinch under His process. — Mrs. 
May Anderson Hawkins. 

No worship, no service offered to Christ, can be accepted 
until your heart and will have been surrendered to Him. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Our heavenly Father counts it well done when, having put 
our hand in His, we can say " Thy will be done." — Mamie 
M. ClaMn. 

Lie low, O heart, at Jesus' feet, 
For there all bitter things are sweet. 
There thou canst know the heart of God, 
And use the staff and kiss the rod. 

— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Coming to Christ includes an honest and sincere forsaking 
of all for Him. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Do not become irritated when anything is not done in 
accordance with your will, but learn to submit in everything 
to the will of the heavenly Father. — Father John. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 295 

If you will just sit quietly down at the feet of Jesus, you 
will get the blessing. — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 

Three noted workers, John Wesley, George Whitefield, 
and Mrs. Catherine Booth, testified that they never found 
the trouble at the point of faith, but rather at the point of 
surrender. — Free Methodist. 

Beloved, stop struggling against God, and get into the 
full current of divine life and live. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

When a man gets truly converted he wants to do the 
whole will of God. — Rev. M. G. Standley. 



SUCCESS. 



There is no defeat to the one who has the Holy Ghost. — 
Rev. Pennington. 

To follow Christ in all things is to attain such perfection 
and win such success as to cause the world's standard of 
success to dwindle into insignificance. — Rev. H. W. West- 
wood. 

A living faith and daily prayer and watchfulness are as 
needful for spiritual success as food is for the body. — Rev. 
A. B. Russell. 

If you are a child of God, doing what God wants you to 
do, there is nothing on earth or in hell that can bring you 
to defeat. — Rev. Pennington. 

Whatever is done in God's will, can never be a failure. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

When you meet scriptural conditions, you will get 
scriptural results. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 



296 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Any life is a success that stands as a faithful witness for 
God. — Selected. 

Jesus succeeds at a point where you are a failure. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

The only way to have blessing and prosperity is to follow 
God's guidance. — Selected. 

The road to heaven is not success, but labor and devotion. 
— Selected. 

In the things of God if a man fails it is his own fault, 
for success is guaranteed if conditions are fulfilled. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

God's presence and help always insure success. — Rev. G. 
P. Pardington. 

God brings us to places where we have to venture on Him 
or fail utterly. — Mrs. L. A. Sherman. 

Truly the secret of success is in the secret of prayer. — 
Christian Standard. 

There is no success without suffering. — Dr. Pierson. 

As long as we stay in the Spirit there is always victory 
and success. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

" Clean hands and a pure heart " are the conditions of 
success. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Faith and prevailing prayer will bring success just as 
surely as the prayers of Elijah brought rain to a dry and 
barren land. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

If we keep in the Spirit, we will rejoice in the success of 
others as if it were our own. — Rev. S. B. Sham 

Standing alone for God also means success in the highest 
sense. — Rev. H. W. Westivood. 

No craft ever foundered with Christ on board. — Rev. 
Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 297 

Absolute dependence upon God is essential to success. — ■ 
God's Revivalist. 

You are a success if you are where God assigns you 
service. — Selected. 

You may find your life just as much a miracle of success 
as was our Lord's. — God's Revivalist. . 

Nothing is a success except that which is wrought in God, 
and for God, and with God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

A soul that has instant success is one that has constant 
success. — /. N. Tomlin. 

Set your ideal high, live a holy life, push hard for victory, 
trust God implicitly, and success is assured. — Rev. C. E. 
Cornell. 



TEMPTATION. 

What can harm thee when all must first touch God, within 
whom thou hast enclosed thyself ! — R. Leighton. 

There is a place in the secret place of the Most High 
where God's people can stand no matter how many ava- 
lanches of temptation are cast upon them. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

There are temptations that come from the breaking up of 
plans. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

You can not get to a place in this life where you will be 
so holy that the devil will not try to trip you. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

Yielding to temptation is sin. — Selected. 

There is on the earth no state of grace so exalted as to lift 
the soul out of bow shot of the devil. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 



298 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

No power on earth can make you commit sin unless you 
choose to do so. — Selected. 

Temptation is not sin. Yielding to the temptation is sin. — 
Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Our severest temptations will come to us after our greatest 
blessings. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Temptations are no sign that we are not wholly the Lord's, 
but are rather the evidence that we are His property. — God's 
Revivalist. 

The Bible reveals a personal Satan just as truly as a 
personal God. — Way of Faith. 

There is no sin in being tempted ; the sin is in yielding. — 
God's Revivalist. 

Learn the lesson of transformed sorrow. " Count it all 
joy when you fall into diverse temptations." — Xashvillc 
Christian Advocate. 

We can get to a point where it will be dangerous for the 
devil to provoke us to temptation because in the midst of it 
we will get down to prayer, go to shouting, and start a 
revival. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

The devil is wondrously busy leading souls away. — Mrs. 
Lamson. 

You never know that you have a grip on Christ or that 
Christ has a grip on you so well as when the devil is using 
all his force to attract you from Him ; then you feel the full 
of Christ's hand. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

Be much in prayer, or you will be much in temptation. — 
Selected. 

Meet the enemy with the unanswerable truth that God 
can not fail, and what He has begun, He will finish. — Carrie 
Jndd Montgomery. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 299 

The stronger the purpose of fidelity to God, the stronger 
the pressure the enemy will bring to bear. — Selected. 

When you are in diverse temptations, count it all for joy ; 
for God is faithful and He has promised to make you more 
than conqueror on every battlefield. — Nettie Peabody. 

It is while you are resisting little temptations that you are 
growing stronger. — Phillips Brooks. 

When Father says : " It is enough," we slip through the 
devil's fingers. One word from God is enough to paralyze 
his grip on soul or body. — Madge Duff. 

A wounded temptation may come back to you, but a 
decapitated temptation will trouble you no more. — Rev. G. 
B. F. Hallack, D. D. 

The great reason why so many fail to overcome the fiery 
darts of the enemy is because they fail to " consider Him 
that endured such contradiction of sinners against Him- 
self," and so " become weary and faint in their minds." — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

It is always at the gateway of our life's greatest blessings, 
that the devil places his picket guard of prejudices, or repels 
us by some peculiar dislike. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Joseph's character and faith did not shield him from temp- 
tation, but they kept him from yielding to it. — Rev. G. P. 
Pardington. 

We confront the devil every time we attempt anything 
for God. Give him no quarter. — A.' Abrams. 

When we get to a place where we see nothing but God, 
our enemies are forced to withdraw. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Jesus said to the devil, " Get thee behind me, Satan," but 
Jesus does not tell us to say that. He said " Resist the 
devil." We don't want him to get behind us, we want him 



300 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

in front where we can use the shield of faith. — Rev. E. L. 
Hyde. 

Only while we dread the entrance of our soul's enemy can 
we be safe from his deadly assaults. — Rev. J. L. Withrow. 

Christ met His temptation with words of God which He 
used as swords or darts. — Northwestern Christian Ad- 
vocate. 



TESTIMONY. 

The Scriptures teach that it is the duty of God's people 
to testify of their religious experience. — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

Faithful witnessing is quite as necessary and important in 
its place as faithful working for Christ. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

You have often noticed that you can not speak half of 
what you feel. The soul is bigger than our expression of 
it. Truth is wider than our vocabulary. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Ask God to put in your life supernatural things that will 
themselves be His witness to your testimony and commend 
it to an unbelieving world. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Our witness of the Christ must always include His deity, 
His atonement, His resurrection and His coming again. — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We should let the world know what Christ has done for 
us. — Selected. 

If we love Jesus with any depth of love, we shall need no 
command to speak His name. — Alexander McLaren, D. D. 

All religious persecution is against testimony. — Rev. G. 
D. Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 301 

We have nothing special to boast of in ourselves, but our 
souls have the best reason to boast in the Lord. — Rev. E. I. 
D. Pepper. 

Jesus was under arrest. Peter had " more vehemently " 
declared his anticipated fidelity, yet now he " began to 
curse and to swear — I know not this man ! " Mark 14 : 31, 
71. We have all witnessed this more vehemently business, 
and, alas ! some of the subsequent cursing and swearing busi- 
ness. How easy to be brave sometimes, and how easy to 
play the coward at others ! No wonder that we need to be 
tried and found unwavering before the day of final awards. 

— Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

We ought to know our possibilities. We ought to have 
a " thus saith the Lord." We ought to be able to give 
Bible reasons for everything we believe. — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

Witnesses do not talk of the doubts, but the certainties. 

— God's Revivalist. 

We all should live so as to have a testimony that pleases 
God. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

When you accept Christ you will have power to confess 
Him.— D. L. Moody. 

The Spirit is a witnessing life. — Selected. 

Where holiness prospers, the class meeting will thrive. — 
Rev. D. F. Brooks. 

God wants us to be living witnesses, proving to the world 
not only His almightiness but His dependableness, so that 
as others see what He has become to us, they will learn to 
trust Him too. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

To every one of us God gives something that He wants 
us to say to others. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 



302 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Your testimony is the life of your saving faith. — Selected. 

We advertise Jesus here, and He advertises us up yonder. 
— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Let us let the Holy Ghost lift our life up as high as our 
testimony is for Him. — Selected. 

It is dangerous for us to go through life and have no 
testimony. Have we seen the Christ? — John McGahie. 



THE BLOOD. 

Child, if you want the victory plead the blood ; this gives 
settled peace. — Rev. Pennington. 

The theology of the saints of God is a blood theology. — 
Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 

The most precious thing in the world is the blood of 
Christ. — Rev. S. Williams. 

Everything in the Bible runs to the blood, as a basis of 
salvation. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

The blood of Christ is the great theme of the Scriptures. 
Peter calls it " the precious blood." — Christian Witness. 

The precious blood of Jesus will cleanse the vilest. — Wm. 
Stadt. 

Christ went to heaven as Great High Priest, to present 
His own blood. — D. Y. Schults. 

I can not believe in the love of God without the blood 
of His Son. — Dr. John Robertson. 

God wants the precious blood of His Son Jesus advertised. 
— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Through the blood of Christ we may have a triumphant 
death. — Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 303 

We are to trust God — to find salvation ; and when a soul 
comes in contact with the blood, it brings salvation — Rev. 
H. N. Broivn. 

The blood of Christ is sin's remedy. — Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 

Through the blood of Christ we gain victory over Satan. 

— Rev. Chas. U. Dane. 

Redemption is an earnest business and cost its author 
every drop of His crimson blood. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The blood of Christ alone can cleanse the heart from 
sin and make it a fountain of life and sweetness. — Rev. 
George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

As we walk in the light as God is in the light, we shall find 
that the blood cleanses us from all sin. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

While the blood cleanses, there is something for us to do. 

— Mrs. Lamson. 

No man can rightly value the blood of Christ who has not 
seen himself lost and undone and absolutely without hope 
outside of the atonement of Calvary. — Old-Time Religion. 

The moment we lose out of us the sublime art of accommo- 
dation to others, we are bereft of the edge of comfort, and 
need the retouch of the Blood. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

If we keep under the blood of Christ, the devil can not 
get us ; that is one place where the devil can't go. — Selected. 

Beloved, we need the cleansing of the blood to bring us 
into perfect harmony with God ; and I am glad that it has lost 
none of its efficiency. — Dr. Guilym. 

Instant faith in the blood is the self-preservation instinct 
of the spiritual life. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

We sinners need the blood and the oil, but Jesus only the 
oil, the blessed Holy Ghost. May we receive both in their 
fulness of cleansing and filling. — Rev. D. M. L. Lachner. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



THE CROSS. 



There is a glory side to the cross. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

In conversion, the cross is the will ; in sanctification, the 
cross is the affections. — Rev. D. Rand. Pierce. 

Christ's cross is Christ's way to Christ's crown. — William 
Penn. 

The more we follow on to know the Lord, the more deeply 
we learn the glory of the cross. — Mrs. Catherine H. Brodic. 

Every true saint is heir to the cross. — Luther. 

It was great for Simon to carry the Master's cross, but 
it is greater for us to make that cross effectual in the salva- 
tion of men. — Quoted by Bishop Wilson. 

The cross is the only measure of the worth of man. — A. 
M. Hills. 

Seeking now to fit our shoulders to bear the cross, we 
shall some day find our brow fitted to wear the crown. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The cross is behind many a blessing that the world re- 
members not. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The cross is to meet with in little things as well as in great 
things. — Hay Atkin. 

You have to begin at the cross and end in glory. — Selected. 

You can not shake off the cross that Christ fastens to your 
shoulder. — Selected. 



THE HEART. 

The heart is the mainspring which regulates the whole 
man, influencing his conduct and determining his character 
and destiny.— Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 305 

God puts the heart in the lead of the man. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

The heart, not the intellect, is the organ of- faith. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

God is much more concerned about the heart than He is 
about the head.— Rev. J. W. Hill. 

Head-speaking is not always heart-speaking. Heart work 
is life work, and life tells. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Bible does not talk very much about a man having a 
holy head, but it does have much to say about a holy heart. 

— Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Knees that are hardened by prayer make a soft heart. — 
Selected. 

Go to God heart foremost. — Rev. Hill. 

The peace and joy of the Christian religion has its founda- 
tion in the heart. — Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D. 

God sees the heart ; nothing can be hid from Him. — Rev. 
G. P. Pardington. 

Christ's religion in the heart is not an unfeeling religion. 

— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

A religion that neglects heart disease will always fall 
short. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

The Holy Ghost must saturate us with a divine conquest, 
before He can use us to conquer other souls. — The Silent 
Evangelist. 

The Spirit of God will attract and convince men. — 
Selected. 



306 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Holy Ghost conies along and helps a man out. — 
Bishop Joyce. 

We must have the Holy Ghost to know the things of 
God.— Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

It is Jesus we want, and when we are rilled with the Spirit 
of God, we are filled with Jesus. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

We are the temple of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is 
in each believing heart. He is dwelling within us, and work- 
ing out through us. O, most glorious thought! — A. F. 
Carter. 

The Holy Spirit teaches us through His own Book. — Dr. 
Torrey. 

There are storm-centers of the Holy Ghost, and harbors 
of His significant repose. Hallelujah! — Rev. Thos. K. 
Doty. 

Christ's resurrection day was the beginning of the dispen- 
sation of the Holy Ghost. — Selected. 

We have a God in heaven for our Father, and a Son by 
His side to plead our cause, and a Divine Executive on 
earth to look after our interests. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Holy Ghost is a gift to the church. — Rev. Hulda A. 
Rees. 

You need the Holy Ghost to show up all of the tricks of 
the devil. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

God can and does call men, and anoints them with the 
Holy Ghost. — Rev. Frank A. Doty. 

The Holy Ghost can teach you many things, if you will 
only be simple enough to let Him. — Rev. Bailsman. 

The Holy Ghost is the Executive of the Trinity, through 
whose intervention we reach the Father and the Son. — Rev. 
W. B. Godbcy. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 307 

The Holy Spirit is the medium by whom God communi- 
cates Himself to us, and by whom we hold communication 
with Him.— Rev. F. E. Marsh, D. D. 

The Holy Spirit is more than a name, an influence, a' force. 
He is a person, hence the gift of Himself implies more than 
any effects He may produce in us, or any endowments He 
may impart to us. — Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D. 

We may know the Holy Ghost, may be conscious of His 
sacred presence and enjoy blessed communion with Him as 
the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. — Rev. J. A. Wood, 
D. D. 

The only work that will stand the test of the judgment 
fire is the work of the Holy Ghost; and anything that will 
perish with the using is unworthy of the affection of a child 
of God. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Not until you are Spirit-filled, can you bring in the con- 
viction of a need of Christ and the glory and duty of the 
holy life. — Rev. Dr. Troy. 

The Holy Ghost makes divine things real. He puts an 
edge on our spiritual consciousness. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The Holy Ghost makes the Bible real to us. — G. D. Wat- 
son. 

One breath of the Spirit throws a pall over the tinsel of 
earthly glory. — Rev. E. S. Dunham. 

Only as we stay in the clear white light of the Holy Ghost 
are we able to lead others. — Mrs. C. E. Cotvan. 

God's Pentecostal freedom is realized by all who know the 
Spirit. — Lucias B. Compton. 

The Spirit of God is intelligent and sensitive. — Christian 
Witness. 

The Holy Ghost gives us holy boldness. — E. Winder. 



3o8 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible, and a part of 
His work is to explain and apply its teaching. — Rev. M. W. 
Kuapp. 

The knowledge of the Holy Ghost is superior to math- 
ematics. — C7. D. Watson. 

The Holy Ghost is the executive, to do God's work. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

When the people were oppressed in Bible days, God sent a 
man moved by the Holy Spirit to comfort them. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 

The Holy Spirit is always ready to give some manifesta- 
tions of His power. Shall we not believe Him? — Selected. 

Be controlled by the Holy Spirit. — Selected. 

Let us yield ourselves day by day, and ask God that it 
may please Him to let His Holy Spirit work in us. — Andrew 
Murray. 

We must " tarry with God " until the enduement of the 
Holy Ghost is a real personal experience to us. — Selected. 

We will be strong to believe if we listen to the Holy Spirit. 
— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

When Christ rules the life, when He dwells in us in the 
person of the Holy Spirit, the " fruit of the Spirit " will be 
manifest. — God's Revivalist. 

A person must be emptied of everything contrary to the 
Holy Ghost before he can be filled with the Holy Ghost. — 
Rev. E. F. Walker. 

When you get the Holy Ghost in you, the tongue that 
could not say anything will be loosened. — Rev. Bailsman. 

If we truly receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the life of 
Christ, for He is the Spirit of Christ. — Rev. James Lcish- 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 3O9 

The Comforter is our slander by; that is what the word 
means. — E. C. 

We become strong by having the abiding of the Holy 
Ghost in our hearts. — Christian Witness. 

No believer without the Spirit is a true example of the 
Christian life. He can neither be useful nor happy.— Rev. 
I. W. Lower. 

The Holy Ghost is strong to lead you safely and will not 
leave you until He has done all that He has spoken of.— Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

The Holy Ghost is the ruling power of the world to come. 

— Rev. F. H. Chappel, D. D. 

If you would keep filled with the Spirit, you must " pray 
without ceasing," and " in everything give thanks." — Etta 
E. Shaw. 

The Holy Ghost is not a spiritual luxury only, but an indis- 
pensable necessity. — Rev. D. T. Schults. 

The Holy Spirit in the heart has a marked hostility to sin 

— which He ever seeks to destroy. — Christian Witness. 
Glory to God, I believe that the Holy Ghost will scatter all 

other ghosts ? — Mr. Davis. 

Let us be careful to keep in the most loving, intimate rela- 
tion with the Holy Spirit. — Rev. J. M. Pike. 

The Holy Spirit is the Christian's promised Guide. — Rev. 
M. W. Knapp. 

The Holy Ghost is a powerful rejuvenator. He freshens 
out and revives the souls of the saints so that their " youth 
is renewed like the eagle's." — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



THE JUDGMENT. 



It seems easy enough with many to sin now, but the day 
of settlement will not be so easy. — Rev. B. Canadine. 

Get Jesus as your mighty Counselor, and your case will 
be safe in His hands at the judgment. — John Butler. 

O what will it be to meet lost souls at the judgment, and 
realize their blood upon us ! — Sister Cowan, from Japan. 

You can not afford to go to the judgment with anything 
between you and God. — Rev. E. A. Fergersori. 

The momentous things of judgment are hidden only by a 
thin veil of mist. — Rev. J. R. Miller. 



THE SOUL. 

When we speak of the soul, we mean that which thinks, 
feels, and lives. — Arthur G. Burlingame. 

Apart from Jesus the best personal gift pertaining to all 
earth-life is a royal soul. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The human soul is so beautiful that Christ was willing to 
die for it. — Dr. Carradine. 

The human soul was made for God. He alone can satisfy 
it. — Christian Witness. 

Soul-value is the secret of all value. — Northzvestem Ad- 
vocate. 

The finer the grade of the soul, the nearer it approaches to 
the divine ideal, the further it gets away from the bodily 
manifestation. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Man is a trinity of body, soul, and spirit. — Dr. Daniel 
Steele. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



THE WILL. 



God has given every soul the power of choice. — 5. A. P. 

If your will is under the Holy Ghost, you will not will any- 
thing that is wrong. — Rev. Helm. 

The Scripture keynote is " choice." — Rev. George P. Pard- 
ington, Ph. D. 

I can choose, and in spite of environment, and in spite of 
my habits, I can submit to the will of the Lord. — Rev. John 
Pennington. 

The important question is not how much you enjoy relig- 
ion, but whether you will whatever God wills. — Rev. James 
Mudge, D. D. 

The prodigal may have thought a long time about his state, 
but he got converted to the new course of conduct just when 
he said, " I will arise and go to my father." It is a case of 
the will. — Northzuestern Christian Advocate. 

It is decision that gives the power of standing firmly, when 
to yield might be only the first step in a downward course to 
ruin. — W. H. Stembridge. 

A will satisfied with God's will when all else is taken 
away, is the purest of all love. — Fenelon. 

A single "yes," or "no," turns the scale of destiny of a 
soul. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

To be willing is a rarer grace than to be doing the will of 
God. — Professor Drnmmond. 

Willingness to believe is usually half " the fight of faith." 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We can't get away from God's love, but we can shut our 
hearts to it. — D. L. Moody. 



312 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We need decision for the soul. — Selected. 
You can will yourself off the devil's territory, and will 
yourself into the hands of God. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 



THE WORD. 

Revelation is the act of supernatural or superhuman com- 
munication of God's will or law to men. It is supernatural 
because it is beyond the knowledge or light of man's nature 
or reason. — 5. B. Shaw. 

Everybody on earth can find his exact likeness somewhere 
in the Bible. — Selected. 

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest 
way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. — 
Flavel. 

God can show you more in half an hour than you could 
learn in a century away from the truth of God's Word. — 
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The truth of God is twofold. The Spirit and the Word 
must in all things agree. One is dependent on the other. — 
Wm. A. Phillips. 

Matthew's gospel was written especially for the Jews, 
Luke's gospel for the Gentiles. — Rev. W. F. Flint. 

The word is the Lord's, whether the messenger be the 
masterful Moses, the songful David, the seraphic Isaiah, the 
tearful Jeremiah, the fiery Ezekiel, or the holy Daniel. — Se- 
lected. 

Begin your morning by giving God's Word some time 
while you are fresh. — Dr. Henry Wilson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 313 

There is always a great difference between the reading 
that leads away from the Bible and the reading that leads to 
it. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

If we be ignorant, the Scriptures will instruct us ; if 
out of the way, they will bring us home ; if out of order, 
they will reform us ; if in heaviness, they will comfort us ; if 
dull, arouse us ; if cold, inflame us. — Translators. 

The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties. Write 
its principles on your heart and practise them in your lives. — 
General Grant. 

The Bible is God manifest in human language. — M. W. 
Knapp. 

The Word of God will stand when all things else go to 
decay. — Chas. N. Crittenton. 

But man asks, " How can you prove the Bible is in- 
spired ? " I answer, because it inspires me. — D. L. Moody. 

No one can read the Bible with open heart and remain in 
the dumps. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

The Bible is the book for all time. — Rev. John A. Ritson, 
M. A. 

Try all things by the written Word, and let all bow down 
before it. — John Wesley. 

It takes love-light to see the sweet and the honey in the 
Bible. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

People who have received the Holy Ghost know that holy 
men wrote the truth. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

The Bible is the standard for both faith and practice, and 
there is no standard varying or differing from it. — Rev. Seth. 
C. Rees. 

If we will search God's Word we will find that it is full of 
priceless spiritual jewels. — Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D. 



314 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Bible grows by being read. — Christian Standard. 

What God says, and not what we think, must ever be the 
weight to weigh our actions. — Rev. F. E. Marsh (England). 

Your life must be trimmed by the Word, and straightened 
by the divine plumb-line. — The Way of Faith. 

The Word of God is a great picture gallery ; you will find 
in it all kinds of pictures portrayed for our good. — Rev. M. 
W. Knapp. 

Since the Word of God is given for a lamp unto our feet 
and a light unto our path, if we fail to follow the Word we 
shall walk in darkness. — Etta E. Sham. 

The Bible is a common-sense old book. — Rev. G. D. Wat- 
son. 

The Bible will settle every question. — Sarah A. Cooke. 

The Bible is the word of life. — David W. Mnir, Jr. 

God's Word is plain in the great principles that should 
guide us. — Rev. H. W. Westwood. 

Every verse in the Bible will be fulfilled some time or 
other. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

When the Bible is set aside, man becomes like a vessel 
upon the ocean without chart or rudder. — The Pentecostal 
Era. 

The New Testament unfolds the Old Testament. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

No book is so practical as the Bible. — Sunday School 
Times. 

The Bible is the educator of the race. — Selected. 

The Bible contains the key to salvation. — Rev. Hooplc. 

" The Bible is God " — all we know of God is revealed 
there.— Rev. W. B. Leach. 

Prayer is the key that unlocks the Bible. — Bishop Foss. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 315 

The New Testament Scriptures are a witness of Jesus 
Christ. — Selected. 

The saint is one in whom the inspired word of Scripture 
has been turned into living fact. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Bible won't be a dry book to you if you know its 
Author. — Rev. E. L. Hyde. 

We ought to study the Bible with earnest prayer for the 
illumination of the Holy Spirit. — Christian Witness. 

He reads and hears God's Word well who seeks to realize 
it in his life.— Selected. 

The book of Acts gives us the outlook of Christian faith 
and hope. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The Word of God only can keep us from the snares. — 
Rev. K. Mackenzie. 

More knowledge of God's Word will be gained by a single 
effort to obey one of His commandments than by a year of 
reading with no effort to keep the Word of God. — Selected. 

Every Bible verse shows us something heavenward. — 
Selected. 

The Bible read without much prayer makes an intellectual 
Christian, while a great deal of prayer with but little study 
of the Scriptures, will produce fanatical Christians. — D. L. 
Moody. 

A reverent study of the Word of God opens the way for 
the mightiest prayer. — Selected. 

God wants us while we live to prove in our own experience 
all things that have been taught in the Bible, and to find it 
in a new and living edition in the flesh and blood of our own 
lives. — Messages of Love. 

The Word of the Lord can not be broken. It has forever 
been settled in heaven. — Rev. Pennington. 



316 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must return to the old paths of our fathers and accept 
the Bible as God's Word, from Genesis to Revelation. — Mrs. 
Traer. 

Matthew is the gospel of the King ; Mark is the gospel of 
the servant ; Luke the gospel of the Son of Man ; and John 
the gospel of the Son of God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We have to go by the Bible. — Rev . E. F. Walker. 

My Father's word is assurance enough, for time and eter- 
nity. — Rev. Pennington. 

Let no inward feeling or outward sign dissuade you from 
your voluntary choice to count God's Word true, to yourself. 
— Rev. S. A. Keen. 

God's Word assures us that we are free, when we meet the 
conditions of His Word. — Selected. 

You must take your Bible as it is, or abide your destiny. — 
God's Revivalist. 

God in the eternal Word gives us the choice of freedom in 
Him, or the bondage of the devil. — O. Chaffin. 

The Bible is indeed a precious treasure to all who rend it 
in the real spirit. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

When God writes anything, He means business. It is 
written in the form of a contract, and when you and I take 
it up, it becomes a contract. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The body is not the man ; he is an immortal soul, and can 
only live as he is fed by the Word of God, without which 
spiritual life evanesces. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

There is nothing this side of heaven so important as God's 
Word.— Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

God in His infinite wisdom and mercy has so woven to- 
gether the truths of His Holy Word that each truth is pro- 
tected by every other truth. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 317 

The Bible is the love letter of a real lover of the soul. — 
Christian Witness. 

Let us have a faith value of the Bible. — Selected. 

The Bible is a spiritual book, given by inspiration of God, 
and is, therefore, unlike any other book. — Rev. J. G. Pingree. 

No student of prophecy is an infidel. — Sr. Robert Ander- 
son. 

The fact of fulfilled details of unerring prophecy forces 
belief in the declaration that all Scripture is inspired of God. 

— Rev. Cash E. Wakefield. 

How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last page 
of the Revelation should come bending round to touch the 
first page of Genesis.— Alexander McLaren. 

The Bible is powerless without Christ to make its truths 
clear, sharp, convincing, converting, and sanctifying. — Dr. 
W. W. Landrum. 

The test of revelation is practical. If it comes from a 
holy God it will produce a righteous character in those who 
use it. — Dr. J. W. Bashford. 

The Bible is the living link binding the years together. — 
Selected. 

The Bible itself is wrought out of human lives. — Selected. 

The proof of inspiration is that when God's Word is re- 
ceived into men's hearts, it does God's work. — Dr. J. W. 
Bashford. 

Our faith in the Word of God is tested. If it can not bear 
the test, it is good for us to be made conscious of our weak- 
ness in order that we may seek from God His gift of faith. 

— H. S. Bainbridge. 

The written Word is the expressed will of God. — Rev. G. 
N. Eldridge. 



318 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The Bible is pre-eminently a book of covenants. — Jennie 
Bland Beauchamp. 

Satan was silenced by the simple statement from Christ, 
'." It is written." That left him nothing more to say. — Rev. 
E. D. Whiteside. 

He who reads, studies, loves, and obeys the Word of God 
will share in its immortality. — Christian Standard. 

The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of men, the 
way of salvation, doom of sinners, and the happiness of 
believers. — Selected. 

The Scriptures are a great storehouse of knowledge. — 
John R. Mott. 

We ought to know the Word of God in order to do it. — 
Christian Witness. 

The life that is too busy to afford time for Bible reading 
and study is planning for an abundance of leisure when it 
will be too late. — Rev. Dan. B. Britnunitt. 

Our only hope is to take the Scriptural route. — Rev. Bad 
Robinson. 

I believe we should know better how to pray if we knew 
our Bibles better. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

The Bible is the Christian's guide. — Rev. Chas. W. Dane. 

No earnest student of the Bible will be weak. — Selected. 

The Bible will keep any of us straight, if we will only read 
and believe. — Rev. Osbom. 

God's Word is deep, and he who studies it will ever have 
something new. — Way of Faith. 

If we have our memory filled with divine promises, we 
also may drive the tempter away. — Northivestern Christian 
Advocate. 

It is safe to rest on God's promises. — God's Revivalist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 319 

Thank God for the Bible, so full of food for the soul. — 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

God has never demanded that we should understand 
everything, but that we should believe every word that He 
has spoken. — The Silent Evangelist. 

The Bible is the foundation of the best and highest civil- 
ization of the world. — Rev. James G. Tucker. 

Bible verses will save us from reverses. — Way of Faith. 

When we put our faith faculties in God's hands, He 
cleanses them all out, and we will believe God and the Bible. 

— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

If we want and expect to get the best out of God's precious 
Word, we must receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. — 
God's Revivalist. 

Thoughtful Bible reading is a great help over hard places. 

— Margaret E. Sangster. 

God's Spirit rilling the heart, is the best commentary on 
His Word. — Selected. 

If you are willing to choose the seeming darkness of faith 
instead of the illumination of reason, wonderful light will 
break upon you from the Word of God. — A. J. Gordon. 

Never was there a lock of soul trouble yet, but what 
there was a key to open it in the Word of God. — Spurgeon. 

Some portion of the Bible should be studied every day if 
you would be kept. — Rev. Chas. W. Dane. 

God has armed you with that which meets your emer- 
gency. Go read and pray ; go read and pray. — Isaiah Reid. 

The Bible is as strong as our needs, no more, nor no less. 

— S. A. P. 

Go to the Word of God if you would have rootedness. — 
Herrick Johnson, D. D. 



320 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When a man studies his character in the light of the holy 
Word, the result always is that he makes it beautiful. — Rev. 
H. C. Morrison. 

Some one asked a young convert how he could believe 
that the Bible was inspired. He said, " Because it inspires 
me." That was a short cut to inspiration. — D. L. Moody. 

In reading the Bible we come (as it were) face to face 
with God. — Selected. 

The New Testament was founded upon the Old, and the 
Old was perfected in the New. — Northwestern Advocate. 

The Word of God is not only a lamp to our feet and a 
light to our path, but exhorts us to courage and victory. — 
W. A. Stembridge. 

The more you study and read the Bible, the more you will 
love it. — Mrs. Eva Watson. 

I am living in His Word, running in the way of His com- 
mandments. — Francis J. Bryan. 

God talks to us when we read the Bible. — IV. N. Hope. 

The surest way to get a thought to help is to turn to God's 
thoughts, or your Bible. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

There is no book in the world to which men turn so gladly 
when they are in trouble, as the Bible. — Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

God's words are wonderful. They are light and under- 
standing to the simple. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The Bible is the most perfect transcript of every phase of 
human nature. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Bible is the standard from which there can be no 
appeal. I love the Bible from cover to cover. — Rev. Seth 
C. Rees. 

Stop a moment and thank God for His Word, which means 
so much to you. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 32 1 

The Bible to-day. It must become the universal book to- 
day. It must become the universal book in the glad to-mor- 
row. — Justice Brewer. 

The Bible is our text-book. — Rev. E. F. Walker. 

God's truth, the Bible, is the light of the world. — Selected. 

Every word of God includes truth and duty. — Phillips 
Brooks. 

The New Testament is not a book of rules, but of prin- 
ciples. — Armory H. Bradford, D. D. 

The great Eternal talks to us through the Word. — Rev. 
Logan. 

The knowledge that comes to us through the Scriptures is 
an exact knowledge. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

We need to believe our Bibles, and take them word for 
word as meaning just what they say. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God's Word is as true as Himself, and to doubt the prom- 
ises is to doubt God. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

The Old Testament is a book of purposes ; the New Tes- 
tament a book of principles. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Every one who is filled with the fulness of God has a keen 
relish for the Word of God, and a clear understanding of the 
meaning of the Holy Scriptures. — Pittsburg Christian Ad- 
vocate. 

The more holy we become, and the more in union with 
Christ, the more the Bible's pages will shine. — Dr. Levy. 

When a man gets harmonized with God, he has a good 
appetite for the Word of God. — Rev. Short. 

The Bible clearly describes all kinds of characters. — 
Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

When the Lord settles a problem through His Word, it 
is forever settled. — Rev. John Pennington. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Faith demands that we should hold tenaciously to the 
Word. — Rev. K. Mackenzie, Jr.. 

The Bible frankly tells the faults as well as the virtues of 
its great and good men. — Christian Standard. 

The Bible is an infallible chart, showing every rock, reef, 
shoal, and dangerous coast. It lays down a course that 
avoids these perils. — Rev. J. O. Peck. 

Whoever will take the trouble to get on easy terms with 
the Bible will find his utmost patience and effort well paid. 
It will be to him a temple of wisdom. — Rev. Thos. C. Mar- 
shall, D. D. 

Give the Holy Book large place in the feeding of your 
hungry heart. — Rev, Win. Chalmers Covert. 

When a man is afraid to read the Bible there is something 
wrong. — M. G. Standley. 

When the Word of God is accompanied by the Spirit, it 
takes effect on the heart. — L. M. Perry. 

The Bible tells us how to be true and to flee from the 
sins of life. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

God always honors His word, no matter who may declare 
it.— L. 

When Satan came to the Saviour, his majesty was met by 
Scripture. — Clark Jones. 



TRIALS. 



To be very dear to God, involves no small degree of 
chastisement. — Sfurgeon. 

Do not lose the blessing that lies hidden in your trials. — 
Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 323 

The Lord Jesus was in Gethsemane only a few hours, and 
even then He was strengthened by an angel. — Dr. Daniel 
Steele, D. D. 

God knows what keys in the human heart to touch in 
order to draw out its sweetest and most perfect harmonies. — 
Selected. 

It is at the point where we are just about to faint, that 
God gives us strength to go on. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

All the troubles of a Christian do but wash him nearer 
heaven. — Spurgeon. 

In our moments of deepest trial we have comfort in the 
thought that we are privileged to be one with God in 
Christ. — Sunday School Times. 

The peace of God will keep us under every trying cir- 
cumstance. — /. N. Goddard. 

We glory in tribulations because they give us a boost 
into glory. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Trials give an opportunity to be an overcomer. — Rev. G. 
W. Ridout. 

The trials and tests are just as essential as the sunshine, 
and even more so. — M. E. Howell. 

It is the privilege of God's sanctified people in the midst of 
their fiery furnaces to have the consciousness and the wit- 
ness that God is pleased with them. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

The hard rowing in the night storm on Galilee proved 
the disciples' pluck and gave new fiber to their sinews. — 
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

The more tried we are, the stronger will our faith be. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Trial is the preparation, and the pledge of grace. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 



324 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We may have troubles, but our hearts need not be troubled 
since the Trouble-Sharer is with us to divide the load. — 
M. T. 

The severest test of life is when one has to stand alone for 
Christ. — Selected. 

Every noble crown is, and on earth will be, a crown of 
thorns. — Carlyle. 

God's children never walk in the fire for Him, but that 
He comes and walks with them. — Rev. Courscy. 

We have no assurance without strife, trial, troubles and 
loss, but we are assured that we may have unbroken peace 
within while the outer life is thus beset. — Rev. J. R. Miller, 
D. D. 

Those who draw near to God in the fires will have reason 
to praise Him forever for sore trials. — Christian Advocate. 

Trials are daily lessons by which God seeks to educate 
you for glory and power and immortality. — Lieut. Col. S. 
L. Brengle. 

The closer I lived to God, the greater the trials ; and it 
showed me that God was for me. — A brother in Christ. 

Sometimes God sends severe blasts of trial upon His 
children to develop their graces. — Theodore L. Cuylcr. 

The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing 
to the inner man. — M. D. Bahcock. 

We may be brought into our garden of Gethsemane, but 
there will always be an angel near to comfort and strengthen. 
— James E. C. Sawyer, D. D. 

The King's highway to the New Jerusalem passes through 
Gethsemane. — Christian Standard. 

The preparation for trials is a life of faith and a constant 
course of self-denial. — Richard Baxter. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 325 

Remember that when you come through a trial victoriously 
you are higher up in the mountain than when you entered 
it— Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

Every trial, every sorrow, every cross, has for the 
righteous soul a compensating element of good. — Dr. Frank 
M. Bristol. 

The very thing you thought a stumbling stone, God means 
to make a pillow for your head, and a ladder of ascension 
to His presence. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The heavenly life thrives in the midst of trials. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The righteous are precious to the Lord, and therefore 
He refines them with afflictions. We should not desire to 
escape our trials, for they are the channels of our best 
blessings. — Rev. C. H. Spurge on. 

A realized Christ, present in the home, is the remedy for 
a thousand troubles and sorrows. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Glorify God in the fiery trials of life. — Selected. 

If you keep trusting Jesus, you will find victorv in the 
midst of trials. — Rev. BeVier. 

Our brightest and best spiritual ideas come to us in times 
of sorest trials. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Trial is God's measuring line, to measure the grace we 
have. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

If you walk in the Holy Ghost, you will be tested in this 
world. — Sister Rees. 

Our faith is absolutely worthless until it has been tested bv 
trial. — Mrs. Mabbette Anderson. 

If your life is dark, then walk by faith; and God is 
pledged to keep you as safe as if you could understand 
everything. — Horace Bushnell. 



326 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Out of the thing that seems ready to conquer and destroy 
you, God wants to bring to you a faith that you never had 
before and a revelation of His love and power that you never 
dreamed of. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



TRUST. 



Trusting is what we do when we get everything else 
done. — Murray. 

May God give us such an experience that no matter how 
great our bereavements, we will trust Him though we can 
not see Him. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 

Real trust in God is a heart trust, and it leans on His own 
blessed, immutable heart. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Life's highest, hardest lesson is trust. When we have 
learned that, blessed are we. — Sunday School Times. 

Pray, and wait on God. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God never disappoints the trusting obedient soul. — M. E. 
Howell. 

You can never know the power and strength of Jesus, 
till you begin to trust Him. — Hattic Galhnan. 

Trust, firm trust, straightforward, childlike trust, is the 
everlasting condition of all co-operation with God. — 
Christian Standard. 

The weaker we are, the stronger we trust. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Everybody that trusts God will find Him true. — Rev. SctJi 
C. Rees. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 327 

The Lord does not explain the reason for His conduct 
in numberless instances, but leaves us to a life of faith. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The devil has not armies enough at his command to cap- 
ture one single saint of God who dares to trust Him in the 
face of everything. — Rev. J. H. N orris. 

Trusting as God wills, and trusting to the end, hold 
still. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

Trust in Jesus takes the tire out of the heart. — Christian 
Standard. 

Trust is such a simple thing that because of its simplicity 
we fail to comprehend the meaning. — Free Methodist. 



TRUTH. 



Christ brought truth on the highest questions of all and 
taught us that truth most fully. — Rev. William L. Watkins, 
D. D. 

The truthful heart is the only thing that will and can 
and does maintain a truthful life. — Christian Standard. 

Truth is a unit and your soul is a unit ; so you can not 
divide the truth in its relations to you. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

The only way to know truth in any saving way is to obey 
it from the heart. — Ruskin. 

Truth and love is the blood of the soul. — Northwestern 
Advocate. 

The Spirit of truth guides into all truth. — D. Y. Schults. 

Truth is the thing that will undo the work of the devil. — 
Selected. 



328 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When the heart wants the truth and nothing but the 
truth, God will see to it that such a one shall be guided into 
all truth.— Rev. G. D. Watson. 

You know the truth by being true ; you recognize God by 
being like Him. — F. W. Robertson. 

My freshest truth is still the will of God. — Henry Drum- 
mond. 

The soul was made for truth, and can not live in fiction 
and chaff.— Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr., D. D. 

Broad-swording with the gospel truth kills, but it makes 
alive. Hallelujah! — Rev. E. A. Fergerson. 



UNBELIEF. 

God makes unbelief one of the most dreadful things 
there is. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

God will come in and deliver us from all unbelief. — Rev. 
M. L. Hancy. 

Doubt is Fooking for light ; unbelief is content with dark- 
ness. — Henry Dntmnwiid. 

Christ never failed to distinguish between doubt and 
unbelief. Doubt is " I can't believe ;" unbelief is " I won't 
believe." — Murray. 

We can use words that will produce unbelief in our hearts. 
— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Much of Thomas's unbelief arose from self-will. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

The cause of unbelief in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- 
dred, is looking at circumstances — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



UNITY. 



The unity of the Spirit brings us peace. — Selected. 

God wants no divisions in His family. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God wants to make us at oneness with Himself. — Rev. 
Watkins. 

When God saves us, the Holy Ghost gives us the spirit 
of unity. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The divisions and confusions of this mortal life will be 
forgotten in the lasting union of heaven. — Bishop Hurst. 

Christ is the bond of union and through Him and in Him 
only can we hope for the completeness of heaven. — Bishop 
Hurst. 

There is power in the union of the people of God. — Rev. 
Helm. 

God wants all His children to be united in His love. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Some believe that bigotry is the result of organization, 
but Peter and John were bigoted before the Christian 
church was organized and they said to the Master, " We 
forbade him because he followeth not us." — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

How vastly to be regretted that so many good people 
do not weld on to many other good people ! But iron never 
welds until it begins to melt, and it never melts without a 
white heat. And this condition is not so much the product 
of the forked lightnings of Sinai, as it is of the cloven 
tongues of Pentecost. Get from Sinai to Pentecost ! — Rev. 
Thos. K. Doty. 

We need to lose our ranks to face the world, saying we 
are the family of God, the children of the Most High, the 



330 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

tribes of the Lord, the holy nation of God. — Rev. G. Camp- 
bell Morgan. 

The Holy Spirit can bring unity of mind and unity of 
soul. — Rev. Helm. 

We need a revival that will sweep away selfishness and 
narrowness and all sectarian spirit and bring those that now 
spend their time in criticism of each other down on their 
faces together before the Lord, crying out for the salvation 
of lost souls. — Old-Time Religion. 

I used to tease the Lord for lots of things, and He did 
not pay any attention to me any more than a mother does 
to a teasing child. I pray now to be one with Him, then I 
have everything. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

How near are we to each other when we are all united to 
Christ. — Fenelon. 

Joined unto the Lord, we are one spirit. — Rev. Henry 
Varley. 



VICTORY. 

God means me to be at my best in strength and hope. — 
Joseph Parker. 

God puts His children in no position in which He does not 
mean them to live sweetly and victoriously. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller, D. D. 

To dwell in God is to dwell in constant victory. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

" I can do all things through Christ which strengthened! 
me." We are " more than conquerors " in Christ. — Rev. 
J. H. Jowett. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 33 1 

Let us keep our eyes on our Commander, and take His 
strength for ours, and victory is sure. — Nettie Peabody. 

Prepare for victory not for defeat. We go forth, " con- 
quering and to conquer" — in present and continuous vic- 
tory. — Glory to God! — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

Christ on board will still the tempest of temptation or, 
in spite of it, bring the vessel safely home. — Rev. S. A. 
Morse, D. D. 

Every temptation that we overcome makes it easier to 
overcome again. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Looking up is the conquering attitude of the soul. — 
/. W. S. 

If you will listen to God, you will come out with victory 
in your soul. — M. G. S. 

It is one thing to be conqueror, but another thing to be 
" more than conqueror." — Selected. 

If our lives are victorious, our Christ is glorified. — Rev. 
L. A. Nies. 

To win victory is to get it beneath your feet and stand 
upon it, and reach up thereby to God. — Alex. McLaren. 

The victories of the past are sure, but the coming victories 
greater and not less sure. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Trials and persecutions may come, but there is victory for 
us who are fighting under the Captain who never lost a 
battle. — David W, Muir, Jr. 

If you will have victory, follow your back track and 
make things straight with God. — John Pennington. 

We can have lives of victories without defeats. — Rev. 
Seth C. Rees. 

Our hope of victory is with God, and Him alone. — 
Selected. 



332 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

That is the victory — when you can make the world a 
ladder to lift you up to God. — Alexander McLaren. 

If you are to be victorious, you must keep the command- 
ments of God ; you must obey Him in all things. His Word 
must be your delight. — John Pennington. 

Quiet patience and joyful confidence in our prayer before 
God will always bring the victory. — George E. Berg. 

Happy is he who, looking back over his stormy past, can 
truly say, " I have fought a good fight." — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

It takes the Holy Ghost to assure the victory. — Rev. Ira 
E. David. 

Victory awaits all who are faithful. — Rev. IV. S. 
Stephens. 

Job got through on the heaven side of his failure. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

May we win victories, and win them in God's way. — John 
Pennington. 

In all religious work, there is always victory in the work 
or words, which have in them the ring of heart and love. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Obey the Lord and you will live on the victory side. 
You will have the victory three hundred and sixty-five days 
in every year. You will have it when there are no grapes 
in the vineyard and no herd in the stall. — Rev. Kulp. 

The moment you step on God's conditions, that moment 
the fire falls, and victory comes to your, heart. — Rev. 
Compton. 

Just where we have failed in the past — Jesus tells us 
to let down our prayers, our energies, our faith in the same 
old place of defeat, that He may give us abundant blessing. 
— Rev. G. D. Watson, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 333 

It is just grand to mind God, and when we obey Him, He 
sends the power and the victory. — Sam. Cleavy. 

Jesus always comes to a soul who is determined to have 
victory. — Mary Clark. 

I have a glorious time getting to heaven. — Mrs. Allen. 

In all ages of the world, the man who has walked with 
God, has come out ahead. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

In order to be where God wants you to be, you have got to 
have an experience as clear as a sunbeam. — Rev. E. A. 
Fergerson. 

A victorious experience is the normal state of the child 
of God. — Rev. Clarence Strouse. 

It is your privilege to have an experience that will keep 
you triumphant over doubts and fears and hell. — Rev. 
Clarence Strouse. 

The Lord promises us victory before our battles. — Rev. 
G. P. Pardington. 

The battle with the powers of darkness may be long and 
hard, but the victory is possible. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God has never depended upon numbers for His victories. 
Selected. 

No matter how small our numbers, if we are true to God 
we shall have the victory. — Selected. 

If all of us, like Gideon's band, stand in our place, and 
look at the Lord, and do just what He says, we will have 
glorious victory over all foes. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

O, if I had a voice that would reach from pole to pole, 
I would proclaim it to all the world ; Victory, Victory ! 
through the blood of the Lamb. — Dr. Seiuall. 

You always have victory when the Holy Ghost dwells in 
your heart. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 



334 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is your privilege to have victory every day and every 
hour, if you will keep looking unto Jesus. — Dr. Torrey. 

Christ has promised us continual victory through the 
blood, if we obey His voice at all times. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

Let us talk less of self, of trials and temptations and of 
sickness, and more of victory through Christ. — Rev. John 
Pennington. 

The Christian's aim is victory, not freedom from attack. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The fourth chapter of Matthew tells of the first conflict 
and victory for the King. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Every new victory which a soul gains is the effect of a 
new prayer. — Rev. T. J. Tigert, D. D. 

" Looking unto Jesus " is the attitude of the soul that 
walks in victory. — Rev. John Pennington. 



WATCHFULNESS. 

Watchfulness and the prayerful spirit continually must 
be ours. — Rev. H. W. West-wood. 

Watchfulness is the Christian's shield, for protection 
from wreckage to both soul and body. — Victor Chaffin. 

Do not watch yourself. If you do you will go down. 
Watch Jesus. — Mrs. May Mabbcttc Anderson. 

We need all of us to watch and pray lest in an unguarded 
moment the destroyer of souls assault and wrest from us 
the crown of everlasting life. — Rev. H. W. Westwood. 

Only a little while at most until Jesus comes. Watch and 
pray lest ye enter into temptation. — God's Revivalist. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 335 

Keeping your eyes on Christ keeps them off the world. — > 
Christian Standard. 

We must be exceedingly careful that our spirit and heart 
are right with God. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We need to watch the fountains of our feelings, and keep 
them in touch with Jesus. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

To watch God seems to put a new nature in us. — F. W. 
Faber. 

We must be ever on the alert, for the enemy is always 
busy. — James Stollert. 

It takes anointed eyes to look after the details of a real 
religious life, and it is by this vigilance that the saints 
become rich in grace. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 



WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT. 

To this faculty of the soul comes the still small voice 
and the witness of the Spirit to our being born again and 
wholly sanctified. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

Great joy comes to us when we find our title clear, no 
blur on it. — Dr. Levy. 

Faith brings the witness that you are a child of God. — 
Selected. 

Souls that surrender to the Lord will have the witness of 
the Spirit given, and they will know beyond one doubt, 
whether or not they belong to the Lord. — M . E. Howell. 

When God does a thing He witnesses to it with the Holy 
Ghost. — Rev. Helm. 

It is a wonderful thing to get the witness of the Spirit. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 



336 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

When the witness and the fruit of the Spirit meet together, 
there can be no stronger proof that we are of God. — John 

Wesley. 



WISDOM. 



He only is wise who seeks the crown of everlasting life. — 
Rev. H. IV. Weshvood. 

God gives us as workers and witnesses for Christ, " the 
spirit of a sound mind." — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

If we follow the Holy Spirit's teaching in the tests of life, 
we will get His wisdom. — 6". A. P. 

If you are under the blood of Christ, you will be level- 
headed. — Bud Robinson. 

We should take the mind of Christ, so that His wisdom 
will be ours. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 



WORK OF CHRIST. 

The teaching and the example of Jesus Christ bring to 
us the revelation of God's will and His purpose of love and 
mercy toward our fallen race. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Jesus is called Saviour because His office is to save. — 
W. B. Godbey. 

To overcome the forces of sin and to overthrow the 
kingdom of Satan Christ has set up His spiritual kingdom. 
— Rev. C. E. Mmideville. 

The supreme end of Christ's coming was that He might 
bring life and immortality to light. — Rev. Hugh Hay. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 337 

Christ came to declare to us the heart of God. — Selected. 

Jesus came to bless us and to dry our tears. — Rev. J. H. 
Flower. 

Christ came from heaven to tell us about God, and to let 
us know how God wants us to live. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

The kingdoms of darkness and error must fall, and the 
kingdoms of this world must become the kingdoms of our 
Lord and His Christ. — Rev. J. Murray Taylor. 

The reason Christ had such faith for men was because 
He saw the divinity in them. — Selected. 

Christ's incarnation was the gift of Himself to this 
world.— M. L. K. 

Christ is all and in all to me. He can comfort a soul in 
the lowest and darkest places of earth. — G. L. Hedrick. 

Jesus meant all He said. — Rev. Raymond Robinson. 

In Christ there is a city of refuge. — Rev. J. D. Marsh. 

Jesus Christ has breathed a new hope into the heart of the 
race. He has brought life into the darkness. — Rev. P. H. 
Swift, D. D. 



WORLDLINESS. 

Only grace can wean us from that covetousness which is 
idolatry, that world-worship which is sin. — Michigan 
Christian Advocate. 

How do professors of religion appear in the sight of God 
and the heavenly host who are constantly saying, " Lord, 
Lord ! " and yet are unwilling to make as great a sacrifice 
to bring lost souls back to God, and to lay up treasures in 



338 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

heaven, as they are to gain worldly honor and lay up treas- 
ures on earth ? — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Worldliness dims the vision of the unseen, paralyzes faith, 
and chills the heart of love. — God's Revivalist. 

Professed Christians, when indulging in worldly amuse- 
ments, accommodate their conversation and manners to 
those with whom they associate, and soon become like them 
in spirit. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The true Christian is dead to the world as an object of 
love; the sinner in the same way is dead to God. — Dr. 
Daniel Steele. 



ZEAL. 



Put soul into your every effort for God and humanity. — 
God's Revivalist. 

Fervency of spirit is that which availeth much. — Bishop 
Hall. 

There is something intensely attractive in an earnest soul. 

— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

You can not find me a person in the world who has been 
greatly used of God who has not been full of enthusiasm. 

— D. L. Moody. 

The King's business always "requires haste." — Rev. IV. 
B. Godbey. 

Be a Christian out and out. Serve God with all your 
might. — The Helper. 

Daniel was called a man of desires, and it was his spiritual 
intensity that gave power to his prayers and a purpose to 
his life. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 339 

Feed on the Word of God and keep constantly in fellow- 
ship with Jesus Christ by prayer, and your fires of zeal can 
not die. — Rev. C. P. Pitmers. 

Acquaintance with Jesus will put a holy go into you. — 
Rev. Chas. N. Crittenton. 

God wants zealous Christians, in whom the word of Life 
shall burn as it did in Jeremiah's bones. — God's Revivalist. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

We are hastening to the better day. — Bishop Hurst. 

God has appointed a church and ministry for the honor 
of the Holy Ghost, for a publication of the Bible. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

If all Christians would determine within themselves, by 
God's grace, to " contend for the faith once delivered to 
the saints," we would have more of the old-time power 
among us, and there would be less theory and more of the 
conviction of the Holy Ghost. — M. D. Wood. 

There is not an ill nor a trouble to which humanity is heir, 
but the gospel of Christ can finally eradicate and will if 
applied. — Dr. Quilliam. 

The Lord never creates a need -or a desire which it is not 
His purpose to satisfy. — Rev. D. Y. Shultz. 

When we feel that we have given up the most, we find 
ourselves the richest in God. — Selected. 

Happy is the one who can keep law and grace properly 
adjusted, in his or her experience. — Selected. 

God's plan always pays, no matter what it costs. — 
Selected. 



340 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God can thrash a mountain with a worm ; all He needs is 
a worm — they are scarce. — Rev. Seth C. Rccs. 

The morning breaks, and the gloaming will soon disap- 
pear. But the morning of God is always here ; glory to his 
Name ! Many sit in darkness and the shadow of death. 
Oh ! let us carry the morning along with us, that the 
enshrouded ones may begin to see the Light of the Glory of 
God in the face of Jesus Christ. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

'Tis the power of religion and not of a name, that will 
give the comfort I find. — Christian Witness. 

It is far less important to die the martyr's death than to 
live the martyr's life. — R. E. Spear. 

Those who would serve God, must go by the heart of 
things, not the surface appearance. — Selected. 

When a man is saved he will soon give evidence of it. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

If- you can conduct yourself so the Lord is with you, and 
will go with you, it is enough. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the 
glory. — Scottish Reformer. 

What is the soul? The soul is the man himself. — Rev. 
W. B. Goolbcy. 

Job on a dung hill and Joshua at the head of a nation, 
showed the same faith and force. — Sunday School Times. 

So many people as they go through life, do not know the 
language of heaven. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God knows all and yet is the God of hope. — Selected. 

Is your heart crying out for more of the love of God, more 
of the mind of Christ, more of the power of the Spirit, both 
for yourself and for all the people of God? — Rev. S. B. 
Shan*. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 341 

God is a God of common sense. — John McGahie. 

Tlie sweet eternity is ottr home, and Jesus who makes all 
things sweet, our companion on the road. What grace and 
love. — Tersteegen. 

No one can get us away from God, until we give our 
consent to be pulled up. — Nettie Peabody. 

We shine much for God, when the Holy Ghost burns all 
the dross out of us. — ,S\ A. P. 

The will of God is the sweetest thing that can come into 
cur lives. — Dr. G. P. Pardington. 

There are real apocalypses for each child of God. The 
rainbow visions of morning life, which, instead of shadowing 
into gloom and discontent as manhood or womanhood goes 
on, are heightened into the greater glory of the Second 
Temple and of the Son of God. Amen, amen. — Rev. Thos. 
K. Doty. 

There is a road that reaches to heaven. The bed is solid 
rock ; the rails are fire-proof — heart, faith, and spiritual 
works ; and anywhere along the road we get messages from 
heaven. — John Butler. 

God does not want our gold without our love. — Selected. 

Count the cost of following Christ ; but have you ever 
counted the cost of not following Him? — Selected. 

God has given us wonderful privileges. — Rev. Amanda 
Smith. 

Every choice to follow Christ is a decision to forsake the 
devil. — Rev. Dan. B. Brummitt. 

A man may have a cultured mind and a strong healthy 
body, and yet be incomplete. " What shall it profit a man 
if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? " — 
Stanlev J. Moore. 



342 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is not a sin to be rich, but it is a sin to love money 
better than God. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Thank God for the gold that has not the stamp of earth 
upon it. — Rev. Ostram. 

What God calls me to, I may obtain. — Rev. Jones. 

The eternal abiding place for every soul will be the one 
he has chosen for himself. — Rev. Dan. B. Bnunmitt. 

When we get down to the root of the matter, the human 
will is the secret source of sin against God. — Rev. George 
P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

Most children hear the voice of God early in life, and if 
properly taught will give their hearts to Him. — Nettie 
Peahody. 

Cultivate faith, obedience, service. The secret of holy 
and happy living is gathered up in these three words. — Rev. 
F. B. Meyer. 

The world is no longer an orphan. God is the Father. — 
Bishop Simpson. 

We are not on a fool's errand. We are in business that 
magnifies the Lord. — Rev. John Pennington. 

What God has provided for us. He demands and com- 
mands that we receive. — Rev. Jones. 

Nothing in this world can equal the religion of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, especially when the love of God becomes 
the ruling principle of the soul. — Bramwell. 

God turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into 
sweet. — Hannah Whitehall Smith. 

The most effective speakers are those whom God orders 
to open their mouths. — Christian Endeavor World. 

O, how God wants His people to prove Him ! — 5\ A. P. 

God does His work and makes history. — Bishop Joyce. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 343 

Christ shall give me summer even in mid-winter, and turn 
the very snow into flowers, symbols of peace and sanctity. 

— Joseph Parker. 

Delicacy of touch — the razor that is keen, but not rough. 

— Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

If God is first in our love, His interests will be first. — 
E. H. C. 

Isaiah was indeed the prophet of the New Testament — 
Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

" Before Christ " and "After Christ " are the two great 
epochs of the world's history. — Dr. Harlem. 

It is safer to agree with our Bibles and not cry out 
" bigotry." — Christian Standard. 

There was a time when you and Jesus met. The wounds 
of your penitent heart began to knit up with the wounds of 
His broken heart, and you were united to Christ. — Rev. A. 
J. Gordon. 

Nothing will teach me to live above the world, but living 
upon Christ. — Chimes. 

May we so live as to not leave any sheaves in life's harvest 
field unbound. — Selected. 

Unbelief takes us away from God; belief takes us to 
God.— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

When we are able to say " What my Father does is 
good," we shall have learned in whatever state we are 
therewith to be content. — L. F. Clark. 

The object of the devil is to destroy faith. — Selected. 

We must have the mind of God, the nature of God, to 
know God and things divine. — Living Truths. 

No man ever began to be perfect till he had learned that 
life is for duty and not for pleasure. — Selected. 



344 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The knowledge which comes when led of the Spirit, does 
not require laborious study. — Prentice Mulford. 

O, that we all may be storm centers, then Jesus' name 
will be glorified. — Rev. Parsells. 

The man who looks not only on his own things but also 
on the things of others (Philippians 2: 4) will not only 
take an active self-denying interest in his brother's welfare 
but will gladly minister to an enemy in need. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

I want to be where the Lord wants me to be. — Rev. E. 
L. Hyde. 

When a Christian has the sense of God's approval, he can 
go through everything. — Rev. G. P. Pardington. 

We have stalwart sinners to deal with, so we must have a 
stalwart religion. — Rev. Osborn. 

The earthly rewards of a life committed to God can be 
seen here. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Faith puts us between God and circumstances. — Mrs. 
J. C. St. John. 

It is evident that God sets great store upon redeemed 
man. — Selected. 

One hour of communion with God is worth more than a 
lifetime of everything else. — M. Waterbury. 

To- each child of His, God gives at least one talent. — 
Selected. 

Yield to His comfort, His comforts ! Offishness deserves 
nothing, receives nothing; but openness, tractableness, 
obedience of spirit, trust, receive the comfort of His grace, 
the comforts of His Spirit. Glory! — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

The " Be-attitudes " and the " Do-attitudes " is the fifth 
chapter of Matthew. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 34.5 

Abraham wandered and worshiped alone. — S. H. Bolton. 

So long as there is a will in you to have Christ abide, 
He remains. — Mr. McKenzie. 

The trials of life will seem nothing when we get to the 
end of the way, if we keep faithful to God. — Selected. 

Nothing ever grieved the heart of God more than to have 
man turn away from Him and refuse to walk by His side. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Nothing but the Omniscient mind can follow the lines of 
moral influence and power. — Leander Hall in Examiner. 

The blessed assurance of being in God's will is the 
sweetest on earth. — Miss Lizzie Leonard. 

There is nothing in this life so worthy of our heart's 
affection as the work of God. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Every need supplied is a part of the profits of godliness in 
this life. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

The Christian home is the saving salt of the nation. — S. 
A. Morse. 

May the Lord sharpen our spiritual conception that we 
may comprehend some of the exceeding abundantlies and 
realize that they are for you and me. — Madge Duff. 

I want my life to be an open book. — Rev. Robert H. 
Patterson. 

Who are we, but sinners saved by grace? — Rev. Byron 
Rees. 

I have gone through fire, I would rather stay there than 
not be like Christ. — Mrs. Dr. Baer. 

Prayer and faith are the keys to real watchfulness and 
carefulness. — Victor Chaff in. 

" No graves in heaven — from shore to shore no tomb- 
stones ! " Amen. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 



346 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is wonderful to test God. — Rev. Kennedy. 

Our only safety is out in the deep water, in the ocean of 
God's pure, humble, patient love. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God's best gifts are always before us, never behind us. — 
Sunday School Times. 

The measure for human greatness is man's capacity for 
God.— Rev. J. W. Bashford. 

I plead with you to hunt the goodness in human hearts 
wherever you go. — Dr. Robertson. 

Life is the thing we seek, and man finds it in the fulfill- 
ment of his life by Jesus Christ. — Phillips Brooks. 

We have no right to have any temporal interests on which 
we can not invoke the blessing of God. — Rev. IV. B. 
Godbey. 

Dwell in the secret place, live in the 91st Psalm. — F. H. 
Senft. 

The enthusiastic devotion of the whole heart to God 
is what is asked of us. — Murray. 

You will never be satisfied without the fulness of Christ, 
He made you for Himself and He alone can meet your soul's 
deep need. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The honor of the world is in going to the top ; the honor 
of Christ is in going to the bottom. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

May we receive Christ, trust Him, honor Him, and go 
in faith to prove Him, step by step and day by day. — 
Rev. James Lipscomb. 

This poor old world can not fill the aching of a heart that 
pants for God. — H. C. E. 

We need all our strength and all the grace that God can 
give us for to-day's battles. — Rev. Theodore L. Cuylcr, 
D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 347 

He who is willing to follow Christ is willing to go with 
Him into the wilderness after His lost sheep and to " go 
without the camp," bearing His reproach. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

The soul that is hid with Christ in God is the only one that 
knows God's secrets. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We should not say that anything is too high for us that 
Jesus says is for us. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

Those who accept the invitation to go with God's people 
will receive honor and good in many ways. — Westminster 
Quarterly. 

We are empty till we are filled with the power of God. 

— George Harris. 

That which men can not afford to do for their own ad- 
vantage, they sit down and do under the guise of their own 
advantage. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

God does not reveal Himself to the children of men for 
naught. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

I am so glad Jesus comes to individuals and makes 
Himself known to them. — 5". 

The cross of Christ would not be so heavy if you were 
not loaded down with so many other things. — Christian 
Witness. 

God requires nothing impossible of us. — Westminster 
Quarterly. 

Our heart is made for God, to be God's home : anything 
that is made unmeet for God's presence, leaves a stain on 
the heart which admits it. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God is not only faithful to show us our sins but He is 
faithful to reveal to us the things that hinder our progress 

— Rev. Pennington. 



348 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Be cheerful and content, remembering that the Lord 
often makes our best blessings to grow up between our hard- 
est crosses. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

God Almighty has fixed things in this world so that it pays 
to do right. — Selected. 

A man should not be so " diligent in business," as to lose 
sight of the Lord. — Christian Standard. 

For you to refuse to give your life entirely into God's 
keeping means to refuse Him a home in your heart. — H. 
C. E. 

When we are self-centered, we are not in a condition to 
glorify God. — John Pennington. 

Nobody can hurt a man that walks with God. — Rev. E. 
A. Fergerson. 

We know that the unseen are the real things of God. — 
Selected. 

A man does not need to know much, necessarily, to find 
his way to Christ. — Rev. J. D. Marsh. 

O, let us walk with the heavens opened unto us, and the 
Father ever whispering : " My beloved son, in whom I am 
well pleased." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

There will be many surprises in the last day when the 
rewards are read out to us. — E. H. L. 

In our religious life we must burn before we can shine. 
— Epzuorth Herald. 

When we have died to this old world, its lust and affec- 
tions, its vain pomp and glory, its ambitions and honors, 
then and then only can God use us. — Rev. Edward B. 
Reece. 

God takes away that which we put away. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 349 

Find Christ and you have everything. And better than 
all, be ready and eager to have Him find you. — Bishop 
John H. Vincent. 

Self-righteousness is as filthy rags ; and morality alone 
has no power to save. — Rev. G. P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

A Christian is a citizen of the kingdom of God, and that 
fits him to be the best kind of a citizen in any place. — 
Selected. 

We can not bring in the masses ; we must go after them 
if we would bring them into the kingdom. — Hon. John H. 
Converse. 

The world, from a scriptural standpoint, means every- 
thing that is offensive to God and contrary to the Spirit of 
Christ. — vS\ B. Shaw. 

O mourning, troubled saint, dismiss thy tears. Thou art 
soon to shine as the stars and be a royal diadem in the 
hand of thy God. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The Christian life is the noblest and fullest phase of ex- 
istence. — James. T. Clarke. 

What " secrets of the Lord " are made known to the 
inner ear that will listen ! — E. C. 

The way to " get on in this world " is to walk with 
God. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The religion of Jesus Christ attends to the outside and 
inside. — Dr. Levy. 

We need to get back to foundation principles, for the 
tendency of our natures is to get away from God, the 
center. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

What we do not consecrate to God we must part with, 
or lose our souls. — Selected. 

Harmony with God ends all trouble. — Selected. 



350 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There ought to be no failures in the Christian life. — Rev. 
W. J. Hosier. 

The first chapter of human history began in a paradise, 
but ended in a disaster. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The book of Malachi is a complement of the book of 
Matthew. — Selected. 

One of the most fatal things in the Christian life is dis- 
couragement. — Selected. 

" Looking unto Jesus " is the conquering attitude of the 
soul. — Selected. 

But few men in this world have had the honor of getting 
dinner for the angels, but Abraham had that honor because 
he was walking with God. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Birth is the only prospect of beauty, not only in human 
life, but especially in the divine. — Rev. A. J. Gordon. 

What is Christ to you? — 6". A. P. 

I'm asking for " the best." Solomon got both the good 
and the better along with it. — Dr. G. P. Pardington. 

O, that Ave may be whispering galleries for the voice of 
the Spirit ! — Living Words. 

To be an overcomer is to be a believer. — Selected. 

The glory of God is present wherever God's people are. 
— Dr. J. R. Miller. D. D. 

There is One above who shall keep us unmoved. — F. M. 
Lehman. 

Without deep experience in the love of God we are always 
in danger of being swept from one extreme to another. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

I always wanted the best of everything, and I have cast 
my lot with those who want the riches of God. — Rev. 
Parsells. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 35 1 

Acquaint thyself with God and thou wilt never regret 
it.— 5-. 

In all life, Christ is with us if we are true to Him. — Rev. 
J. R. Miller. 

There is a difference . between looking "for" Jesus and 
looking "unto" Jesus. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

What is our time for, but improvement in righteousness? 
— Selected. 

The Lord has a few things to give away, if you can get 
where you can take them. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Remember that if the Lord makes your cup run over, it is 
that other people may get a taste. — Rev. G. A. Mc- 
Laughlin. 

Holy living is the unanswerable argument in favor of 
the religion of the Bible. — M. H. Freeland. 

I can keep sweet through the grace of God. — Rev. 
Ogborn. 

We are to live in this world, pouring into it the fra- 
grance of the love of Christ— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

It makes a good deal of difference whether you take hold 
of God or God takes hold of you. — D. L. Moody. 

We can know that we are where God wants us to be, and 
are what He wills we can be. — Rev. Morrison. 

To a soul who is fully in divine order, God is revealed 
through everything that is seen. God speaks to such a 
heart from without and from within. — Rev. S. B. Shazv. 

Listen to the voice of Jesus when He knocks at the door 
of your heart, do not turn Him away ; He may be speaking 
for the last time. — 5. A. Eric ks on. 

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are 
buried in the will of God.- — Faber. 



352 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

All Scripture points to Christ. — Rev. John Pennington. 

The universe is called upon to give heed to what God 
speaks. — Rev. George P. Pardington, Ph. D. 

You can't see God when your eyes are full of rebellious 
tears. — Seed Series, No. i. 

He who seeks to know God must study in the school of 
Jesus Christ. — Rev. Dan. B. Brummitt. 

Experience never teaches a person in spiritual things, 
unless surrendered to God. We must have Christ. — Seed 
Series, No. I. 

When we look at God, when we understand God's high 
purpose for us, then we are not so easily satisfied and we 
rise to a worthier ambition. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The seraphim veil not only their faces, but their feet 
with their wings, and the highest ministry is that which is 
so lost in the thoughts of the Master that it forgets even its 
own footprints. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Our little souls grow great by thinking of the vastness 
of God. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

We may not put our burden on our brother, but we may 
lean on God. He knows us personally. — Rev. W. L. 
Watkins. 

In every visit speak one word for Christ, for religion, for 
eternity. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

It pays to mind and serve God. — God's Revivalist. 

From love to man it is but a step to love God. — Rev. 
A. B. Simpson. 

Take Christ into the commonplace details of life, and 
nothing will be trifling. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

The roll of the immortals is the roll of the consecrated. 
— E. O. Watson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 353 

Jesus satisfies our hearts, solves our perplexities, over- 
whelms us with the gifts of His grace and love, and besides, 
adds His " royal bounty." — Dr. G. P. Pardington. 

As we know a poet by the way he writes, so, perhaps, the 
angels know us by this Son-of-God-look in our faces. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

If you want to be a real man, yield yourself to Christ at 
once. — Stanley J. Moore. 

God wants our hearts more than our money, or our pro- 
fession, or our culture, or anything else that is highly 
esteemed among men. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Jesus made a specialty of teaching the poor. — Rev. W. B 
Godbey. 

Let nothing hinder us from being at our best for God. — 
Rev. John Pennington. 

If we keep looking to Jesus we will not have our eyes on 
ourselves. — M. E. Howell. 

It pays to be right with God. — Rev. Charles Boswell, 
D. D. 

The Upper Room has much to do with the social power 
of divine grace. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

God is still going on before us and causing us to triumph 
in Him. — Fred De Ward. 

The great study of every Christian should be how to live 
in this world, so as to live in heaven. — Christian Witness. 

Our Christ and His gospel is no failure. — Rev. U. War- 
rington. 

May God enable us to view the Lord Jesus in His life on 
earth, so that we shall become like Him. — Jukes. 

If you want to be peaceful and happy, look up. — Rev. 
D. L. Moody. 
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354 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

In a thousand ways the Lord takes us at our word. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

I have but one passion and that is Christ. — Tholuck. 

Would it not help all of us Christians if we made a study 
of the sermon on the mount and conformed our lives more 
to its teachings ? — The Temple Appeal. 

Let us see to it that when the good seed is sown in our 
hearing it gets into our hearts ; and take good care that 
Satan does not scratch it out. That is his great aim. — 
Rev. C. F. Wilcox. 

There is one level on which God means for us to live. — 
F. B. Meyer. 

We are candidates for degrees that can not be conferred in 
this world. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God waited four thousand years to get a language intense 
enough to express our holy religion. — Rev. L. C. Pcttit. 

Our physical being is but the underground foundation 
on which the temple of our true nature is to stand. — Rev. 
Joseph II. Smith. 

The thirteenth of First Corinthians is a most excellent 
tonic for every Christian, which will give life and health to 
spirit, soul and body. — The Silent Evangelist, 

There are many blessings that come from the skies to 
the children of men. — Rev. B. Carradinc. 

God in a human countenance is the nearest approach to 
God we ever see in this world. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God does not desire His followers to be on the line of 
retreat, but needs them marching upon advanced grounds 
of victory for Him. — S. A. P. 

It is a great privilege to be among those who serve Christ. 
— /. R. Miller, D. D. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 355 

While Thanksgiving has its origin on Plymouth Rock, 
Christmas rests upon the Rock of Ages. — Charles Dudley 
Warner. 

The natural heart is like that inn at Bethlehem — no room 
for Christ. — Rev. D. L. Moody. 

Nothing profitable can take the place of special services 
in the house of God. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

Christians, stand at Bethlehem and open every door and 
window of your being Christward. — David Gregg. 

God's way is ever a shorter cut and a surer road to the 
desired good, than ours. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Your spirit was made to live with God. — Rev. M. L. 
Honey. 

Everything before the true believer is glorious. — Dr. 
Bonar. 

I'm so glad to be a Christian. Not all" the philosophy of 
the East and the practical literature are half so satisfactory. 
— Mrs. Olive Christian Malory. 

Many can rejoice in prosperity, but how few have learned 
to rejoice in tribulation! — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Your trials can not hurt you, your foes can never down 
you, if you are right with God. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Goodness and mercy follow the Christian all the way 
through life.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

The body is the home, or habitation, of the soul. — M. H. 
Freeland. 

For fourteen years I tried to entertain the Saviour, and 
what a stretch and strain there was, and what exhaustions 
and failures were realized. For many years the Saviour 
has entertained me. I now sup with the Lord; this is far 
better. — Rev. B. Carradine. 



356 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Of all the buildings I have ever seen, I admire most of 
all a God-made man ; for a God-built man will last forever. 
— Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

A true Christian will be courteous, charitable, self-deny- 
ing, live a devoted life — ready to suffer, if need be, in 
every great and noble cause. — R. W . Campbell. 

May we keep our eyes on God, not on our difficulties. — ■ 
Dr. Good-sell. 

Human nature is a solidarity, though there be diversities 
of tongues and races. — Bishop Joyce. 

Ask God to open your heart for the joy and blessing He 
has for you. — Selected. 

Take your bearings, ask the Holy Spirit to give you a 
vision of your own heart and life, and don't be afraid to see 
what is lacking because there is a supply for it. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Sometimes we have not, because we are too blind to see 
or too slow to take the cups which God is preparing for us. 
F. B. Meyer, B. A. 

To be loved is good but to be lovable is far better. — 
Christian Standard. 

We think different from the world because we think like 
Christ.— M. F. 

Facts lose all their littleness to the mind which brings 
principle and law to bear upon them. — John Baird, D. D. 

The friendship of Jesus is one that lasts. — Louis Albert 
Banks, D. D. 

Live for Christ in common things, and all your work will 
become priestly work. — John Baird, D. D. 

The waves are always stilled where the Master walks. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 






SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 357 

It is no more disastrous for a man's arm to be out of its 
socket, than for a life to be contrary to God. — Rev. J. 
Wilbur Chapman. 

Nothing spreads like fire; and no fire spreads like the 
glorious fire of God. — Rev. Torrey. 

Live for Christ in the world, and you carry out with you 
into eternity all of the results of the world's business that 
are worth the keeping. — John Baird, D. D. 

God's plan goes on through all men's planning. — West- 
minster Quarterly. 

Thank God, I experience each day of my life the blessed 
reality of what Jesus is to me. — P. W. Thompson. 

We are not living unto ourselves, but unto God ; therefore 
we should at all times seek to do His will. — Herbert 
Smallman. 

The actual marriage with Christ, His name ours, His 
dowry ours, His glory ours. — Rev. Henry Varley. 

When a man is doing his best in his place and station, 
God always gives him approval and help.— Prof. Drum- 
mond. 

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to 
do, no matter how hard it is. — Selected. 

God's children can all be millionaires in character and 
influence. — Rev. J. W. Hill, Sr. 

I would rather die a thousand times than to deny this 
great salvation. — Rev. J. N. Short. 

Nature has a power to show what is inside of a man 
that responds to God on the outside. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

The great leading feature of moral life is a feeling of 
I-oughtness, a leading feature of spiritual life is, I am made 
what I ought to be. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



358 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Christians are to be more than ornamental. — Rev. J. 
W. Hill, Sr. 

Good experiences are to enable us to live better than 
we have lived before. — Selected. 

Hunting for easy places is to hunt for what God is trying 
to keep us out of. — Selected. 

God expects you to be His representative, here and now. 

— Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

The hospital is the Spirit of Christ, in brick and mortar. 

— A. S. Kavanaugh. 

Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him for- 
ever. — Selected. 

I am determined to run nobody down but the devil, and 
nobody up but Christ. — John Wesley. 

Words are windows. — Rev. Henry Wilson, D. D. 

God has a set time as well as a set purpose. — Selected. 

Whatever hinders the present, limits the future. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

We are not to look at circumstances, but glorify God by 
showing forth His perfect love. — Mrs. Lamson. 

What does God care about organizations, or creed, or 
numbers, if we have not as our sole object the glory of 
God and salvation of the lost? — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

You can't crush a good man who is undergirded by the 
Almighty. — Bishop Hoss. 

In heaven, everybody will be beautiful. — Alexander Mc- 
Laren. 

The Holy Ghost furnishes the highest degree of knowl- 
edge. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Jesus wants us near to Him — and there is rest. — 
Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 350 

God is the same as of old. — Bishop Joyce. 

Man was made to love God and keep His commandments. 

— Central Christian Advocate. 

Sorrow can find in the heart of our Lord its complete 
comfort. — Methodist Recorder. 

Let the grave be my resting place, for Christ rested 
there. — Bishop Simpson. 

Take hold of Christ vitally and let Him take hold of 
you, and then you will begin to branch and leaf out 
with moral verdure worthy of the garden of the Lord. 

— Vanguard. 

O soul, put on Christ — the " garment " that will go 
through the fires of the last days. — Rev. John Robertson. 

God often chooses the things that men despise — the weak 
things. — Selected. 

We need not only the light, but internal spiritual life and 
power. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

God held Moses up for a sample of what He could do 
for man. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Our God is " mighty to save " so we go on in His name. 

— Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Abraham means " Exalted Father." — Rev. John Rob- 
inson. 

Each of God's saints is sent into the world to prove 
some part of the divine character. — Spurgeon. 

Delays are dangerous, but accepting is safe. Delays 
cause us to drift farther and farther away, but the accepting 
brings us near to God. Let Him lead you. — S\ A. P. 

Right and God forever go together. — Selected. 

The Christian life is a redeemed life. — Rev. J. R. Miller, 
D. D. 



360 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God never asks an impossibility of any one. — Selected. 

In the web of every life are the warp and the woof.— 
Bishop Vincent. 

What the world needs is a look at Jesus. — Rev. Morrison 

The way in which Jesus taught religion makes it a living 
religion. — John W. Day. 

Resist the devil, pray much, and walk in the light. — > 
Miss Woodcock. 

Let us stop where God stops. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God sees that you are worth a great deal or He would not 
have paid such an enormous price for you. — Rev. Bud 
Robinson. 

I believe God wants to do His best by every man. — Rev. 
B. Carradine. 

Whatever influences us most is our god, whether it be 
the Lord or a calf of gold. — Rev. J. R. Miller. 

Anything is an evil thing which comes between your soul 
and God's purpose. — Rev. IV. D. IVoodzvard. 

It is a great sin to break covenant with God. — Rev. J. R. 
Miller. 

God's kingdom lays hold of everything that can enrich 
one's nature. — C. E. World. 

Religion is the living of a life in a religious manner. — 
Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

God had so much respect for Abraham He would not do 
anything in the country without sending angels to consult 
him. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Human things must be known to be loved, but divine 
things must be loved to be known. — Pascal. 

The true glory of saintship is for even day. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 36 1 

God has never failed to prosper and bless the wise use of 
legitimate means. — Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu. 

There is nothing so painful in a man's career, as trying 
to rekindle the flame of a burned-out inspiration. — Selected. 

What pains God takes to arrest our attention and have 
us consider what He is doing. — Rev. Isaiah Reid 

When we take God's way we find God's blessing. — 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

When we do not do the best for Christ, we come down. 
— Rev. T. P.F. 

The church has no royal head but Jesus. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

The world is nearer Christ to-day than ever before in 
its history.— Rev. P. H. Swift, D. D. 

No good man ever lives out all the goodness that his 
heart conceives and desires to express. — Rev. J. R. Miller, 
D. D. 

May the Lord help us all to get ready and be ready for 
the paradise eternal in the heavens. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The Lord: had a habit of coming to stand by Paul in 
exigencies. — Bishop Warren. 

All God wants is a chance at my body. — Rev. Caven- 
augh. 

If we are always abounding in the work of the Lord, 
greater things will we see. — Sister Amelia Stewart. 

O, that everybody would hide God's truth deep down into 
their hearts. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

Duty belongs to us, results belong to God. — Christian 
Standard. 

Do not neglect your own soul while caring for others. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 



362 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Thy life is a serious reality. — Rev. Levi Wood. 

We want to look at things as God sees them. — Rev. E. 
A. Fergerson. 

It is a sad day for a man, when he is not as good as his 
heart prompts. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

With everything that God utters, there is a creative 
power to accompany it. — Rev. Seth C. Rces. 

The first and greatest need of every human being is to 
get to God. — W. J. M osier. 

Ask your own hearts whether they are cold or hot. — Rev. 
Wm. Booth. 

Around God's true and trusting ones, He keeps a guard 
of unseen and serving angels. — Rev. J. L. Withrow. 

God has power to bless His own Word, to cash His own 
checks, and carry on His own business. — Rev. Andrezv 
Dolbozv. 

There has never been a man so steeped in sin, so miserably 
wicked, but that if he looked to the Son of God, he could 
receive everlasting life. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

A smooth edge of flattery is sin ; dangerous in the 
extreme ; beware ! — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

Love willingly and gladly carries a heavier burden, in 
order to relieve and bless and honor others. — Rev. S. B. 
Shaw. 

Our citizenship is above with God and Christ in the 
heavenlies, and we are living down here. — Rev. A. E. 
Funk. 

When we get in God's order, we get orders from God. — 
S. A. 

It is only a poor heart that makes mom for Jesus. — Mark 
Guv Pearse. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 363 

Remember all the time that you are only called upon to 
fill that state of life to which God has called you. Do what 
you can in it each day, and be content. — Mrs. Wyman. 

A fixed heart is a well of water, a river of life, a stream 
of joy, and a peace that passes all misunderstanding! Well, 
glory to our Christ. — Bud Robinson. 

Take me, O Lord, for I can not give myself to Thee; 
and when Thou hast me, keep me, for I can not keep my 
own life. — Fenelon. (His prayer.) 

When man was formed in the image of God, he was de- 
formed by sin, but he was reformed by the new birth, and 
was informed by the gospel, and transformed by the in- 
dwelling of the Holy Ghost. — Rev. R. Pierce. 

O beloved, whatever else, you must make sure of heaven 
and take care that your life ladder reaches all the way to 
the skies. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

One truly saved soul will outweigh a thousand converted 
to man's opinions by man. — Vanguard. 

While the old Hindu scriptures have given us some beau- 
tiful precepts of loving, the new dispensation of Christ has 
given us the grace to carry these principles into practice, 
and that makes all the difference in the world. — Pundita 
Ramabai. 

If what we see is not planted by God it will wither away. 
' — E. N. Pickard, D. D. 

Let us not forget that this mystic world is really a king- 
dom. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

God never made nor sustains anything, however insignifi- 
cant, without a principle. — Dr. Upham. 

Care for your body, and give your best powers physically 
to God. — Dr. Henry Wilson. 



3b4 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

All things are possible to believers who have fellowship 
with Jesus. — Bishop Mallalieu. 

Twice happy, if we know what it is to be dead unto the 
world. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The Christian should not allow the devil to kindle the 
fire of anger in his soul. — Guide to Holiness. 

Jesus preached forgiveness to the sinner, and judgment 
to the hypocrites. — Presbyterian Journal. 

Hard and fast rules frequently allow no freedom for the 
action of the Spirit of God. — London Christian. 

Faith and grace stand for good cheer, courage and con- 
tentment. — Evangelical Messenger. 

Our commonest occupations may witness for Christ as 
emphatically as our most sacred callings. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

There is as much difference in the beauty of souls as in 
the beauty of bodies. — Great Thoughts. 

Daniel dined and prayed alone. Elijah sacrificed and wit- 
nessed alone. Jeremiah prophesied and wept alone. Jesus 
lived and died alone. — S. H. Bolton. 

Peter received a look from the Lord ; it put him in the 
eternal line of the apostles. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

There is an " if " in a great many persons' experience. — 
Rev. Short. 

No man can understand God who does not understand 
His judgments, and no man can appreciate God's grace 
who does not apprehend His wrath. — Dr. A. F. Picrson. 

The divine order is faith, fact, feeling. You trust, God 
saves, you know. — Christian Standard. 

No storm can drown a boat with the Lord on board. — 
Nortlnvestern Christian Advocate. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 365 

The mourner's bench is the Galilean Carpenter's bench, 
where He has done some of His best work. — Rev. G. A. 
McLaughlin. 

The Lord has made us so rich in everything else we do 
not mind a little poverty. — Brother Jones. 

How little we know of the purposes of God in His chil- 
dren ! — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The Bible makes a clear distinction between natural and 
spiritual life. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

Wonder is one of the features of the heavenly life. — C. R. 
C. MacGregor. 

" Brethren, remember that you are not only the salt of 
the earth, but also the sugar." — Spurgeon. 

Like John's disciples, when anything goes wrong, let us 
" tell Jesus'." — Rev. George P. Pardington. 

Let us ask God to shake the tree of life, that some of its 
fruits may roll down at our feet. — Rev. C. P. Mar den. 

Thank God for tidings from the Throne ! — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

God means something when He talks to us. — Rev. Logan. 

While I live I will keep the faith. — Rev. Robinson. 

God loves to use broken hearts and broken things which 
the world despises. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

There is no substitute for the living Christ. — Rev. G. P. 
Pardington. 

Almost the best gift God gives us is a true mother. — D. 
L. Moody. 

You will always find Jesus at the end of yourself. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

To be a Bible Christian is the highest encomium that can 
be passed upon any one. — Selected. 



366 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Lord make me an uncommon Christian. — George White- 
field. 

It has been my custom to look to God in the morning for 
the day's work, and in the evening for the night's rest. — 
Rev. Benjamin M. Adams. 

Many ring God's door-bell, and do not even wait to see 
if He comes to the door or looks out of the window. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

My brother, be content to be a tiny candle in this world, 
but be sure you shine. — Rev. W. B. Lower. 

When you are free, there is no controversy in your soul 
towards God. — Rev J. N. Short. 

My part is to improve the present moment. — John JVes- 
ley. 

God desires not only to pour His life into us through 
faith, but through us to others, through love. — Rev. James 
M. Conkey. 

The revival needed will take away every desire for 
worldly amusements, and abolish every ungodly scheme for 
raising money for the support of the gospel. — Old-Time 
Religion. 

When we come to Christ, we find Him a satisfying por- 
tion. — Rev. Bailsman. 

You have got to have either the devil or Jesus for your 
companion. — Bud Robinson. 

The greatest work of a human soul is to believe God. — 
Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God means what He says when He asks us to accept His 
gifts — "the gifts of the Spirit." — Selected. 

God has ever been trying to make Himself understood. — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 367 

Don't hurry the Almighty's plan. — Selected. 

God is looking at me, and I can't afford to be unclean. — 
Rev. Bud Robinson. 

God gives, He does not sell. — Selected. 

The soul has a real face, but it only shows it in the coun- 
tenance. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

If we live so that the voice of God is ever heard in the 
heart, then shall we not only be restful and happy in the 
Spirit, but safe in life. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

Light may be our talent, joy may be our talent, love may 
be our talent, or it may be the shine on our face. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

The Lord does not want anything unclean in His temple. 
— Selected. 

God manufactures satisfaction, but He gives it to those 
who are His people. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Superficial preachers and worldly professors are not 
hungry for thorough work. Neither do they always under- 
stand deep work when they see it. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The finding of Christ means a changed life, filled with 
blessing, power and victory. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

To know truth, to know duty and privilege and yet to 
refuse to obey, is to hold the truth in unrighteousness. — 
Madam Guy on. 

Christ never called any one to be small, but he calls small 
folks to become kings and priests unto God. — Rev. T. P. 
Frost. 

We can be what God wants us to be because God is willing 
to make us what He wants us to be. — Rev. I. N. Short. 

When God needed an Elijah for the work He had for 
him to do, He knew where to find him. — S. A. P. 



368 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

He that liveth and abideth in Christ shall eat of the 
heavenly manna and never know hunger and thirst. — North- 
western Christian Advocate. 

The face is the playground of the soul. — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

" The wilderness shall blossom as the rose " and all my 
little influence shall be extended for that purpose. — Rev. 
C. J. Fowler. 

There is such a thing as the " renewing of the Holy 
Ghost." — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The most important step in the Christian life is the first 
one. — Selected. 

O, if the people would only take God's way. — Rev. N orris. 

One of the sweetest words in the gospel is " whosoever." 
— Rev. D. Rand. Pierce. 

Live not so much upon the comforts of God, as upon the 
God of comforts. — John Mason. 

Wherefore, to abide in Christ is to live a life of abundant 
faith Christward, and constant love manward. — Rev. Janus 
M. Conkey. 

Every day men need to have a sense of the invisible 
God.— Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

The standard of our state and relationship to God, is God's 
will. — Rev. Short. 

Pass the station of criticism ; turn your eyes on your heart ; 
look back at your faults, and let them all go; forget every- 
thing and get Jesus. — Rev. Morrison. 

True Christians are the temple of the living God. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

God lends noble thought, which is an out-pour of Him- 
self into ourself . It is faith — the faith which reveals God 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 369 

now. And for things to come, it is their franchise and 
foundation, so that, in seeming defeat, we laugh at the 
impossibility, and cry, " It shall be done ! " — Rev. Thos. K. 
Doty. 

It is a bad thing for a man to get himself all wound up 
in a snarl of mental, moral, and practical rules. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

We are stewards, not owners, of all that God has given us. 

— Selected. 

God is love and He is beauty. His beauty is impressed 
upon everything. — Edward Herbuck. 

Are you carrying the smile of heaven upon your face ? — 
R\v. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The devil's mountains are only made of smoke. — D. L. 
Moody. 

No one has ever given himself wholly to God, but that 
God has, on the spot, performed His part. — Rev. Seth C. 
Rees. 

O beloved, have you entered into a covenant with God? 
Have you bound Him to you by His own everlasting word ? 

— Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

When the books are opened and all are rewarded accord- 
ing to their works, love shall rear an abiding monument for 
eternity to those who were followers of Jesus and " went 
about doing good." — Grace Weiser Davis. 

Let us see Jesus, in a needy world appealing to us. — 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

God loves the souls that do aspire to the highest things, 
and they are, alas, but few. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

We must work for the greater advancement of the 
Christian life. — Rev. Joseph F. Berry. 
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370 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God is our nearest relation. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

God glorifies everybody that stays justified. — Rev. C. J. 
Foider. 

I need not lay this body down to feel thy presence ; thou 
dwellest in my heart and shalt forever dwell. Thou art my 
present heaven, my soul's eternal all. — Hester Ann Rogers. 

May God help us to be helpful to each other. — /. O. 
Young. 

Jesus died to get inside of you, and use you for all eter- 
nity. — Dr. W. A. Spencer. 

What I most value next to eternity, is time. — Swetchinc. 

In every burden is rolled up a gift from God. — Selected. 

When God saw the time had come to redeem this world 
from sin, He had His only Son to send who was willing to 
come for that work. — 6\ A. P. 

We have a right to claim our full inheritance in and 
through Christ.— Rev. G. N. Eld ridge. 

Reliance on an almighty God will bring deliverance from 
enemies. — Christian Life. 

God Himself is the best defense of the Christian. — Rev. 
B. Carradine. 

God saw the restlessness of the rich and the dissatisfac- 
tion of the poor, and the one conclusion that forced itself 
upon Him from every side was that humanity needed a 
teacher to instruct it in the way of truth and lead it out 
into a large place of peace, satisfaction and rest. — Dr. 
Quilliam. 

Religion is that which binds a man to God. — Rev. M. B. 
Fuller. 

Jesus loves you as the Father loved Him, and He may test 
you too sometimes. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 37 1 

God encourages every willing worker, — Rev. E. I. D 
Pepper. 

When a man comes to Christ, he changes his methods. He 
changes from the method of try to the method of trust.— 
Rev. J. Falcon Shaw. 

Be a Christian by letting Christ have possession of the 
center. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

The Bible teaches that we have an inner man, and he rules 
the outer life. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

There is a degree in Christianity, to which whosoever 
cometh feels and sees more than others can. — Samuel 
Rutherford. 

A saved soul catches the things that are glorious. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

We must learn to grow wheat instead of tares. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

Daniel knew that God was bigger than lions. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

God wants us to act like the children of a king. — Rev. S, 
B. Shaw. 

Spend much time in prayer and in study of the epistle to 
the Ephesians. — Rev. John S. Inskip. 

Divine approval satisfies the soul. — /. W. S. 

The Lord is perfectly able to care for His own. — Pente- 
costal Era. 

Many professed Christians are influenced more by the 
pride of their heart and opinions of the world than they are 
by the Spirit of God. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

There are rich morning glories, hanging on the arbor- 
walls of the garden of God, which retain their freshness and 
beauty, on through the heat of the midday sun, and down 



372 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

to the very evening shades of earth. They have Life and 
Sap enough for final transplanting to heaven without any 
wilting or decay. Glory. — Rev. Thos. K. Doty. 

We can live in a land of certainty, with the Lord as our 
Guide. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Don't measure God's mind by your own. — George Mc- 
Donald. 

God allows trials to come upon us to draw us closer to 
Himself.— /. W. S. 

God would have us take His word for what it means. — 
C. E. Morrill. 

The best way to bear crosses is to consecrate them all in 
silence to God. — Fletcher. 

There is nothing like every-day religion. — Pentecostal 
Era. 

Perhaps what the people need to see in us, is that we are 
rested — that we are filled with the peace of God. — C. M. A. 

We have one thing, and only one, to do here on earth — 
to win the character of heaven before we die. — Robertson. 

Men are not defective in their sincerity, but in their faith. 
— Rev. D. F. Brooks. 

We can accomplish wonders in a short time, if we follow 
God's counsel. — Rev. C. P. Masdon. 

Beauteous soul, when a storm approaches thee, be as 
fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. — Richtcr. 

Pride, in any form, is an abomination in the sight of God 
and the host of heaven and in the sight of holy people. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Plainness of apparel is an outflow of the meekness of 
Jesus Christ — "the ornament of a meek and quiet mind." 
It is a measure of the plain common sense of the gospel. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 373 

" We preach not ourselves " — by showing off our gaudi- 
ness ; but " ourselves your servants, for Jesus' sake." — Rev. 
Thos. K. Doty. 

God help us to appreciate and live under the power of the 
world to come. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

We are in the world for one purpose, to find Christ and 
remind men of Him. — Drummond. 

Prayer and pains, through faith in Jesus Christ, will do 
anything. — John Elliott. 

It is beautiful wherever God is. — Nancy Lincoln. 

Our hearts are enlarged as we enlarge our desire for a 
larger blessing. — Sunday School Times. 

The man of God who is what God wants him to be and is 
doing the work God sent him to do, can not take time to meet 
or answer enemies. — God's Revivalist. 

We must not lower God's standard so as to bring it down 
to us. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

Heart knowledge will cause you to know God as your 
heavenly Father and Christ as your Saviour. — S. A. P. 

A single human life has become important, because it de- 
cided a principle. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Be careful how you talk and what spirit you show. Moses 
shut himself out of the Holy Land for speaking unadvisedly 
with his lips. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

The ideal Christian man is a man of convictions. — Rev. 
M. D. Wood. 

Without the love of God and Jesus what must we ex- 
pect? — Rev. A. F order. 

God is the fulness of heaven, love is the fulness of man. — 
Aubrey DeVere. 

Soul is kindled by soul. — Selected. 



374 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

If you go with " Jesus only " you must go with " Jesus 
lonely." — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

He that follows the Lord fully will find goodness and 
mercy following him continually. — Lange. 

Peter is called the apostle of hope, Paul the apostle of 
faith, and John a messenger of love. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

We must trust God to make known His will to us. — Rev. 
F. B. Meyer. 

God is not pleased with superficial work on any line. He 
loves thoroughness, and when He is given the right of way 
in any heart, deep thorough work will be the result. — S. B. 
Shaw. 

There is nothing that you and God can not do together. — 
Lyman Abbott. 

God is not only our Guide, but our Guardian ; and we 
might rather have the Holy Ghost defend us than all the 
pens and bayonets of earth. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

If we take simply what we have and use it as God com- 
mands it will do much good ; for Moses had a rod in his 
hand, but with this he did great wonders. — Rev. J. R. Miller, 
D. D. 

Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or 
sink low, then we hear the whisperings of God. — F. IV. 
Faber. 

God help us down, down, down, where the trial of our 
faith will be much more precious than gold that peris heth. — 
Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

When I live close to Jesus I always feel His approving 
smile upon me. — /. IV. Bee son. 

The Christian life consists of two words. " love " and 
" obedience." — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 375 

One of the most admirable elements in Paul's character 
was his constant habit of considering the highest well-being 
of his brethren and sisters. — C. H. Wetherbee. 

God not only pardons every sin, and gives the evidence of 
it, but He gives you a surplus to begin business on. — Rev. 
C. S. Misbuem. 

The simplest thing we do at Christ's bidding may become 
immortal blessings to other souls or to our own. — Rev. 
J. R. Miller, D. D. 

Whoever does not heed the heavenly calling is lost. — 
Selected. 

God often brings together the right worker and the left 
one, to be worked upon. He has a way of doing this, if 
we will only let Him. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

I would rather walk alone with God than with a thousand 
without Him. — Clara Boyd. 

The Christian worker who is ready, when opportunity 
offers, to sympathize with and assist his brethren anywhere 
and everywhere, has, generally speaking, broader views and 
better comprehension of the dealings of God with His peo- 
ple, and the real needs of the work, than those that confine 
their efforts within the bounds of any one denomination. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The pure gospel of Christ must be applied to the tempta- 
tions of the day, the life of the day, the evils of the day, 
illustrated by the times, and made as effective as consecrated 
power and brains can make it. — T. B. Hutchinson. 

Our lights should be after John-the-Baptist pattern — 
equal parts of burning and shining. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

My soul was made for divinity. God seeks His earthly 
home in human hearts. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 



376 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There is an invulnerableness in grace so long as we trust 
and obey God. To waver is to suffer defeat and loss. — Rev. 
Thos. K. Doty. 

God's ways are higher, better and kinder than our ways. 
— Rev. B. Carradine. 

God meets all human cravings by giving us Himself. — 
Rev. J. R. Miller. 

Christ lays the blessed life open to all. — Canon Gore. 

The church of God can capture the world for Christ if it 
can win the men of the world. — Rev. F. D. Leete. 

The growing love and increasing tenderness of the 
brethren should be dearer to the pastor than all temporal 
gifts put together. — C. H. JVetherbee. 

What is God's testimony of you to-day ? — Nettie Peabody. 

The Lord intends that we shall be free. — Rev. Parsells. 

Wisdom bids you give attention to her voice. — God's 
Revivalist. 

The goal before us is the perfect ideal character of Jesus 
Christ. — Rev. J. Murray Taylor. 

Nothing shall be able to separate the child of God from 
the love of Christ. — G. R. Penny. 

Be not deceived ; you will " reap corruption," if you have 
sown to the flesh. — E. A. Kilbourne. 

I see no danger about anything, because I see God's un- 
changeable love. — Chimes. 

Christ will not live in the parlor of our hearts, if we enter- 
tain the devil in the cellar of our thoughts. — Spurgeon. 

Holiness is only sustained by the Holy Ghost. — Rev. 
Joseph H. Smith. 

There is nothing attractive in us, but God loves us. — Dr. 
Levy. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 377 

God can satisfy the hungry heart. — James McConnelL 

I believe Ezekiel saw the dryest and wettest thing any 
man ever saw. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

Happy is that soul who can find " sermons in stones," 
music in the wind, harps in the trees, beauty in the sunset, 
and worship in the material order of God. — Rev. Isaiah 
Rcid. 

Because Jesus lives, those who trust in Him will live also. 
— Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

As long as a man walks with God, he has victory. — Rev. 
E. A. Fergerson. 

A/lay the Lord keep us on the main line of truth. — Rev. 
Amanda Smith. 

A man that has an appetite or relish for God, loves to 
hear about Him. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

God will give us the things that will develop us. — Rev. 
John Pennington. 

There can be no true liberty till the soul finds it in the 
death of the old man of sin. — Rev. L. E. Nice. 

When Jesus speaks, let fallible mortals hold their peace. — 
Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

" My times are in thy hands," and they could not be in 
better hands. — Christian Work. 

It is to " them that love God " that all things work 
together for good. — Rev. Josephs H. Smith. 

Never doubt either God's presence, God's Word, God's 
pity, or God's power. — From " The Revival Needed." 

If you will abandon the wrong and yield up to the right, 
you will find yourself at Jesus' feet. — Rev. M. L. Haney. 

When people confess Christ let thern pray, and the Spirit 
will come upon them. — Northzvestern Christian Advocate. 



378 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

It is the habit of making sacrifices in small things that 
fits us for making them in great, when it is asked of us. — 
Thorold. 

There ought to be something about a man of God that 
impresses folks that he is a man of God. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

There is the image of God on all His people's faith and 
love, whether great or small. — Spurgeon. 

The measure of your love will be the measure of your 
sacrifice. — The Silent Evangelist. 

A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. — Christian 
Witness. 

This world is God's world by right, ours only by gift 
and sufferance ; and it can not go well with us if we try to 
shut Him out of it. — William Ewart Gladstone. 

Jesus' love, so high, so deep, reaches every necessity of 
our lives. — Amelia Stewart. 

Jesus conquered the devil in the wilderness, and has been 
Conqueror ever since. — 6\ A. P. 

It is a noble ambition to undertake large things for God. — 
Rev. G. W. Ridout. 

Just as God had a divine plan for His Son, so He has for 
each, one of our lives. — God's Revivalist. 

God can make a way where there is no way. — Rev. G. A. 
McLaughlin. 

God help us to dedicate our blessings by handing them on 
to others. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The Almighty leads the submissive. He fails not them 
who fear Him. — Herald and Presbyter. 

It is dangerous to trifle with the mercies of God. — E. 
M. C. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 379 

Success depends upon many things: first, those of the 
four C's — Call, Courage, Confidence, Consecration. — Rev. 
Ernest Lee Thompson. 

When the heart is full of God, a little of the world will 
go a long way.— Rutherford. 

If any man wills to do God's will, he will know. — Rev. 
M. L. Haney. 

A close walk with God means fuller lives, larger faith, 
wider vision. — Selected. 

" God is love " and He is kind to the unthankful. — Rev. 
S. H. Hadley. 

When we have been faithful as a witness and our message 
is not received, let us, like Jesus, " go our way." — Christian 
Missionary Alliance. 

When God gets all of our heart's desires, we are all of one 
accord and in one place with Him. — S. 

my soul, do thy part, with all thy might. — Mark Guy 
Pearse. 

Our first prayer, O Lord show me myself ! Second prayer, 
O Lord show me Thyself! — S. A. P. 

The mercy of God surrounds men all the time. — Rev. H. 
C. Morrison. 

It is a great thing to be sure that Jesus is with us. — 
Samuel David. 

The fir tree represents faith, the myrtle tree represents 
love, and the thorn tree represents evil desires. — Rev. £. D. 
Watson. 

1 believe nothing pays better to advertise than God and 
His works. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Every one that responds to God's call " Come," gives 
God a larger place in the world. — Selected. 



380 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Jesus often said : " The kingdom of heaven is like." 
Keep on the lookout for likes. — Dr. Daniel Steele. 

Man is not himself, unless he is religious. — Rev. C. M. 
Winchester. 

Loyalty to God is loyalty to all truth, at all times. — C. H. 
Wetherbee. 

Jesus wants to trust us for what He has for us to do. — 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God has called us to a wonderful life, full of wonderful 
privileges. — E. A. K. 

There is no compromise between an outright Christianity 
and an outright infidelity. — George Quinan. 

It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maimed, 
another to maim yourself and stay without. — R. L. 
Stevenson. 

Good always comes out of evil, for those who trust God 
and do His will. — Selected. 

God's people are like stars that shine brightest in the 
darkest night. — Selected. 

Christ is the innermost, and outermost, and uttermost 
Saviour. — Rev. Diverty. 

Many souls have been lost by saying " to-morrow " 
instead of "to-day." — Westminster Quarterly. 

Beloved, be a living Bible witness. — Selected. 

When you limit the capabilities of any human soul, you 
limit the power of the Almighty to make you what you ought 
to be. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

We must never be disloyal to Christ for the sake of 
courtesy. — Westminster Quarterly. 

Let us look forward and upward and ever hope and trust 
and praise. — Sunday School Times. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 38 1 

How many are prayed up, paid up, sung up, and shouted 
up? Then we will go up. — Rev. Frank Doty. 

Among the characters that adorn the kingdom of Christ 
on earth, is the " peacemaker." — Rev. B. Carradine. 

There is a lot of Lots in the church, but very few 
Abrahams. — Rev. G. D Watson. 

"Let God have His way with thee," and all will be well. 
Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

Beneath God's protective hand is it not horrible that you 
can be sorrowful, fearful, unhappy ? — Selected. 

One secret of a happy Christian life is learning to live 
by the day. — Way of Faith. 

The Christ of the past is the Christ of the present, " the 
same yesterday, to-day and forever." — Robert Cameron, 
D. D. 

You will never be a saint, unless you desire God more 
than any other object in creation. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Do your duty and trust God to give the seed you sow " a 
body as it hath pleased Him." — Alexander Maclaren. 

Get money, fame, wisdom, sip of every pleasure that life 
has to offer and leave out God, and you will still have a 
hungry soul within you that cries aloud for peace and rest. 
— Fred B. Smith. 

Every need supplied, is a part of the profits of godliness 
in this life. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

The Christian home is the saving salt of the nation. — Rev. 
S. A. Morse. 

God will never disappoint our confidence. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

The human heart was made for God, and it will never 
find rest till it rests in God. — Augustine. 



382 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God gives us not only anointed lips for speaking the truth, 
but anointed ears for hearing it as well. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

Oftimes God tests us to show our patience to the world. 
-/. W. S. 

God is so good to us ; so willing to lead us out of all 
difficulties and temptations and make us more than con- 
querors, if we but look and trust Him. — Bradford Young 
People. 

We often hear God speak, but many of us do not stop, as 
Moses did, to listen. — Minnie IVillwaite. 

To behold the Lamb of God is to see the God of love. — 
Rev. A. C. Dixon, D. D. 

God is still speaking to us through Moses and the prophets, 
to move forward. — Rev. J. Murray Taylor. 

Guard against the leakage and loss of power that comes 
through hasty words, idle conversation and lost monicnts. 
— Christian Missionary Alliance. 

All through the Word of God, the word " servant " 
implies wisdom. — /. W. S. 

The thing that brought David to the throne was having 
a heart like God's heart. — Rev. Isaiah Reid 

God challenges us to test Him. — Rev. H. JT. Westwdod. 

God will have everything: and until then there is no 
permanent rest. — Way of Faith. 

Jesus is too great and glorious to be ignored. — North- 
western Christian Advocate. 

Let us catch a glimpse of Christ's face anew, and go where 
He wants us to go. — Selected. 

As some one has uniquely put it, " God took me out of the 
mire, and put me in a choir." — /. IV. Bothcui. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 383 

The professed Christian who spends time and money in 
a way that does not benefit himself or others is inconsistent. 
Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Praise God for the men and women who stay true to Him 
under all circumstances and who keep so low down at His 
feet that He can trust and use them. — God's Revivalist. 

Seeing the great things Christ does should lead us to 
worship Him. — Northwestern Christian Advocate. 

The soul that abides in the secret place of the most High 
and in the shadow of the Almighty, knows the mystery of 
Christ in him, the hope of glory. — Rev. A. B. Russell. 

I must be filled with all the fulness of God. Beauty, 
quietness, humility, glow in a gracious experience. — Rev. 
H. C. Morrison. 

God never forgets our Bethels, our pillars, our honest 
vows, if we keep them in mind; and sometimes, in tender 
reproof, He will remind us of them when we have forgotten 
them. — Christian Standard. 

It is not what you can do, it is what Jesus does for you 
that fits you for Heaven. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

There are people who receive light slowly and come to 
conclusives very gradually, tremblingly, and fearfully — 
Rev. B. Carradine. 

We have footholds carved in the uphill road. The 
Saviour has trodden them, the saints have followed Him; 
it leads to the light that streams from the Father's house. — 
Margaret E. Sangster. 

All along our earthly life we are shut in with God, as it 
were, in little spaces. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

God knows where His reliable teachers live and sleep. 
They can be awakened at any time. — Rev. D. F. Brooks. 



384 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Gethsemane and Calvary are but windows through which 
we may see God in Christ, shining in perfect beauty. — Rev. 
Henry Wilson. 

How are we going to make people sensible of God ? That 
is the problem in front of us. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

While I can not help myself, Jesus can help me. — Rev. 
' J. D. Marsh. 

The fact is, we are leaky vessels and we have to keep 
right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ. 
— Rev. D. L. Moody. 

It is not strange for the soul to find its life in God ; this 
is its native air. — Professor Drummond. 

Some day we shall find our tears transformed to jewels 
in the crown that we shall lay at Jesus' feet. — Rev. A. B. 
Simpson. 

Human eloquence or persuasiveness of speech are the 
mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent. — 
Moody. 

The Lord plants the truth of His Word in every person's 
heart, to bring them to a knowledge of the truth. — S. 

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned and those who 
live very near to God can see His hand in all their temporal 
matters, and they realize that all things are working together 
for their good. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

Do not blur thy pardon, or easily wound thy conscience, 
or weaken thy faith. — Stephen Charnoch. 

We are permitted to know the goodness of God in the 
heart.— 5. A. P. 

When Jesus looked upon the mass of men in His day, He 
was moved with compassion. Why? Because they were 
as sheep harassed by wolves ; and the first factor in His 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 385 

power to help the sheep was this : that He was not in 
partnership with the wolves. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

God wants His saints on the earth. He has lots of angels 
in heaven. — Bishop J. C. Ryle. 

When Christ is born in the human heart, there is the 
beginning of heaven upon earth. — Herald and Presbyter. 

Outward conditions and circumstances will all pass away, 
but the experience that God burns into us will be part of our , 
life forever. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Let not the refinement of society make us forget that it 
is not the refined only who are received into the kingdom 
of God. — B. Faust. 

Nothing am I, but I bring that nothingness to One, 
and He, of God the Son, made me everything. — James 
Martineau. 

To build up your higher nature takes time, faith, will, God 
and patience. But when you have built it up, you have the 
grandest thing in all the universe of God. — George B. 
Norburg. 

We will, some sweet day, leave this world and go to God, 
with a life redeemed, or not redeemed. Which will yours 
be? — S. A. P. 

Lay to heart the precious truth, " God so loved the world 
that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever 
believeth on Him, should not perish, but have everlasting 
life."— T. L. Cuyler, D. D. 

God listens, therefore do thy best. — Rev. George F. 
Hunting. 

I don't want to reach heaven scarcely saved; I have the 
aspiration to go triumphantly in, and give the honor to Him 
for a complete salvation. — Rev. M. W. Knapp. 
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386 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

See to it that your spiritual eyesight is keen, see to it 
that your feet tread with no uncertainty, see to it that your 
hand loses none of its dexterity, in manipulating the things 
of God. — Rev. John Pennington. 

The first wise choice of our lives was when we chose God. 
— Rev. Hulda A. Rees. 

He who sits at Christ's feet here, shall sit on His throne 
hereafter. — Matthew Henry. 

Whether we do little or great things, is comparatively a 
minor matter ; but whether all we do is done as in God's 
sight, and at God's appointment and command, is ever a 
mighty matter. — Charles Kingsley. 

I would not be out of covenant relation with God for 
a million dollars. — Rev. Morrison. 

There are two essential truths in the Bible; justification 
and sanctification. — Dr. C. J. Fowler. 

Do my life and conversation adorn the gospel of Jesus 
Christ? — John Fletcher. 

Fear not so long as you have Christ with you as your 
friend and defender. — Dr. John Hall. 

I'd rather be a Jew than a Christian of the new dispensa- 
tion who rejects the Holy Ghost. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

It must be a part of the Christian's life to know that he 
is saved. — Rev. D. Robinson. 

God's aristocracy has a right to shout and sing and boast 
in the Lord.— Rev. J. W . Hill, Sr. 

Let the tempest rage, let the devil howl, let trials roll, I 
will find nothing bigger than my God. — Dr. Fowler. 

For forty years my motto has been : " Holiness, happiness, 
unselfishness, and heaven." — Rev. J. A. Wood. 

We ought to be honest with God. — Rev. Broadhcad. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 387 

God's method appears to be always to choose two or three 
men in a generation, to richly gift and endow them, that 
they may be the depositaries of blessing for their followers. 
— Rev. F. B. Meyer. 

There is nothing so unmanageable as a conceited con- 
science. — Beecher. 

God is moving mightily, these days, to pick up anybody 
that will have Him. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

God is the Author of all good impressions, Satan of all 
that are evil. — Selected. 

The past is past. Life is not in the past at all. It is 
wholly in the present. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

God wants healthy children in His family, but He wants 
them to have His life. — Rev. Kenneth McKenzie. 

Little by little Christ wins the mastery over us, gaining 
something each day. — Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. 

One comforting thought is this. The Father's "best" 
means so much more than we could ever accomplish alone. 
— Selected. 

If you have devotion to duty for the guide of your daily 
course, nothing can ultimately go wrong. — Gladstone. 

Keep a quiet place in your heart for restful thoughts of 
God. — Selected. 

God holds us responsible for to-day's ability and to-day's 
opportunities. — Ernest Lee Thompson. 

Jesus leaves us His heart treasures. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

The Lord speaks to the rich and poor alike, to come to 
Him and get His salvation. — S. 

The older I get, the more I want to shut myself up with 
God.— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



388 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

I want to teli you it pays to serve Jesus Christ. He is a 
good friend. — Jerry McAuley. 

No living soul knows the power that Satan has over 
him, until he begins to turn away from sin. — S. 

Aim high, O soul, for the better life that is to come. — 
Selected. 

Man must do his work faithfully. The result of that 
work is in the hand of another. — Carlyle. 

" Use sometimes," " to be alone " with God. — George 
Herbert. 

Never forget your Lord's love, His nearness, His interest, 
His power. Do everything in His strength. Risk every- 
thing. — Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

How wonderfully God works and how little we know 
what is to come of our plans. — Jerry McAuley. 

What does God care for culture and eloquence and refine- 
ment, if the heart is not pure and right ? — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

God speaks to all of us. We all hear Him, sometimes. — 
The Neiv Voice. 

There are so many things that we will be tempted to 
set our eyes on, that we must keep them on Jesus. — Rev. 
John Pennington. 

From first to last, Jesus is the same. — Napoleon. 

Even the light of nature teaches that God requires those 
who dwell in His presence to be like Him. — Rev. W . B. 
Godbey. 

We need the " Doer " to do. We require the "Actor " 
to act. Who is he ? The Spirit and the Spirit alone. — Rev. 
F. E. Marsh. 

From the time Samuel was six years old, the Lord revealed 
His secrets to him. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 389 

A serious soul wants to be right. — Rev. Mills. 

The little book of Philemon is the only book in the Bible 
composed entirely of a private letter written by Paul to one 
of his friends. — Rev. L. A. Banks. 

Be content to lead a simple life where God has placed you. 

— Fenelon. 

What God gives you of His wisdom, hand out to others. 

— S. 

O, how we need to be steeped in the very life and heart of 
God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Every heart is in need of blessings. — Rev. Byron J. Rees. 

Never forget when and where you are, and " grieve not 
the Holy Ghost." — Kingsley. 

Christ's true lovers carry light and gladness wherever 
they go.— /. P. H. 

God is looking for men on whom He can put the weight 
of all His love and power and faithful promises. When 
God finds such a soul there is nothing He will not do for 
him. — Christian Missionary Alliance. 

I will be a Bible Christian. — Carvosso. 

God helps Christian men in every good work. — Bishop 
C. C. McCabe. 

I wish to walk constantly before God without reproof. 

— Bishop Asbury. 

Ignorance is always a blight, and more so in matters of 
religion than anything else. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

I am not wanting crowns, I have Himself, Himself. I 
am going to be with Himself. — Dying Words of John Belief. 

The spirit of man is an instrument which can not give 
out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate 
hand of the Divine Harmonist. — /. C. Shairp. 



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SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 



Nothing moves and melts the heart like the love story of 
Calvary. — Christian Standard. 

Man is saved by expansion, and as man opens his soul and 
pours out his soul unto God, and then unto men, he finds 
salvation come into his soul. — Rev. S. Chadwick. 

Ripe fruit is sweeter than green fruit; so is age sweeter 
than youth provided the youth was grafted into Christ. — /. 
Pillsford. 

Anything that perishes with time is unworthy of the 
affection of an immortal soul. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

The stream that flows from the " Rock of Ages " will 
never fail. — Edward T. Curmick, D. D. 

If we are straight up, and right down, and upright, down- 
right, inright, and outright, and all right, we will not be 
ashamed of anything but sin. — Rev. Bud Robinson. 

Earth has no sorrows that grace and heaven can not heal. 
— Rev. James Hobbs. 

Christ said, " Without me ye can do nothing." So you see 
how Christ recognizes our utter helplessness. — 5. 

We can not live on a belief only of Jesus, but we must 
have the receiving of Jesus in our lives. — S. 

The essence of the hidden worship is in the spiritual 
nature. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Look unto Jesus, even through your tears. — Dr. Joseph 
Parker. 

The Bible reveals man as lost without Christ. — W. M. 
Allison. 

God wants us to be clear as a sunbeam. — Rev. G. D. 
Watson. 

Every man should know and realize the love and power 
of Jesus Christ. — Selected. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 391 

We have on our side, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
We have against us, the world, the flesh and the devil. — 
Rev. Bud Robinson. 

We can outrun men who are not helped of God. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

" Blameless and harmless " is the heritage of those in 
whom God works " to will and to do His own good pleas- 
ure." — God's Revivalist. 

We are glad to see even the effort to do the right thing and 
be good. — Rev. Amanda Smith. 

Among the many occupants of the heart of a saint are 
purity, peace, love, joy, patience, long-suffering, wisdom, and 
submission. — /. W. S. 

We need a quiet hour to hear what God the Lord will 
speak. — God's Revivalist. 

We can not be a man-pleaser and God-pleaser at the 
same time. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

Spiritual beauty is to be greatly desired ; but it is loveliest 
when it is the crown of strength. — Dr. J. E. Sawyer. 

Get your religion altogether, inside and outside, mixed by 
the Lord.— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Every place ought to be holy to a true child of God. — ■ 
D. L. Moody. 

I am so glad there is room on the bosom of Jesus for 
every one. — Rev. Mary Storey. 

Don't be self-reliant, but rely on God. — Rev. T. P. Frost. 

Send the blessing down the golden stair, down to the 
pillars of stone, down to nights of sorrow, down to limbs 
that are languid, down to the souls that are sad. — Matheson. 

It is not your weakest point that is your most dangerous 
point; it is your strongest point, where you have self-confi- 



392 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

dence, that is your most dangerous point. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

Whatever your need is, Christ is the all-sufficient supply. 
— Nettie Peabody. 

The will of the Heavenly Father is that we shall have clean 
hands and a pure heart. — Rev. Weigle. 

Every Christian worker is ministering unto the hunger 
of Jesus. — Selected. 

The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a 
well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy 
grace over all who come within our reach. — F. W. Faber. 

We want far-sighted Christians. Abraham was such a 
one ; he saw the day of God afar off and was glad. — Rev. 
A. J. Gordon. 

If we put ourselves on God's side, He will make a way 
where there is no way. — M. E. Dugan. 

Our capacity that God has given us, is beyond the lives 
many of us are living. — S. A. P. 

Let your friends have your sympathy and your help and 
let simplicity, love, and humility be your great aim — just to 
do God's work without an atom of self in it. — H. MonseU. 

Without Christ, what is there in our lives to oppose 
sin? — Rev. Dan. B. Brummitt. 

When men or women receive the Holy Ghost they have 
all heaven back of them to protect and care for them. — God's 
Revivalist. 

Let God make you a pipe through which to pour out the 
healing waters on the bleeding and dying. — Rev. J. A. 
Kring. 

We fail to make mighty men and women of faith when 
we listen to the enemy of our soul who will make us to 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 393 

doubt if we listen to him for one moment. — Rev. M. L. 
Haney. 

The true saints of God exalt Christ. — God's Revivalist. 

Jesus gave His life for your deliverance. Will you not 
just now come to Him? — John Butler. 

It takes all your power, backed up by Almighty power, to 
live a Christian life. — Rev. Fred E. Taylor. 

God wants men and women not of hot heads, but of hot 
hearts. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

I am glad I ever learned the secret of a happy Christian 
life, to love righteousness and to hate sin. — Rev. Bailsman. 

No one enjoys great knowledge until he has learned to use 
it as for Jesus' sake. — 6". A. P. 

Every man has a burden whether he is a Christian or 
not. The true Christian carries as his burden the will of 
God ; the man of the world carries himself as his burden. — 
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan. 

Back to the heart, if I understand His voice, is the Lord's 
call to the church of our times, even as it is the gospel's 
mandate to the religions of the universe. — Rev. Joseph H. 
Smith. 

The book of Acts, which is rightly called the Acts of the 
Holy Ghost, is full of the teachings and preachings of 
Jesus. — Rev. D. Y. Shults. 

When I hear of any place where church regents do not 
want me to come, I am almost sure to go there. — Rev. John 
S. Inskip. 

Heaven hovers over every hungry soul that is seeking 
Christ's love. — Selected. 

God's plan is to have heaven begin in us here. — Dr. W. 
A. Spencer. 



394 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

The more God prospers some men, the more are their 
hearts hardened and the more they do want. — Dr. Brise- 
zvcll. 

Christ is the key to history. — Rev. J. W. Bashford. 

The people were four thousand years getting to any sort 
of condition to receive Jesus. — Rev. W. F. Newell. 

Lord teach me the way my soul should walk. — 
Savonarola. 

If we magnify the Lord, He will honor us. — Selected. 

God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. — Rev. 
F. B. Meyer. 

The angels of God meet many a man ; but it is not every 
man who has grace enough to recognize them. — Rev. E. I. 
D. Pepper. 

It is a fearful thing to have liberty and use it without 
consulting God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

The gifts of the Spirit are transient ; but faith, hope, and 
love abide forever. — Rev. Coursey. 

Narrow faith and narrow hopes put fetters on the spirit, 
and small affections keep small the heart. — Rev. Phillip S. 
Maxim. 

God often leads up to the appreciation of the best things 
by the experience of their opposites. — James Buckham. 

The sermon on the mount gives us the laws of the 
kingdom. — Selected. 

The world never understood the Father until they saw 
Jesus Christ. — Dr. Morrison. 

Touch God and He will make you whole and you will 
know it. — Rev. J. L. Glascock. 

The beauty which wears is the beauty caught from the 
inner spirit which death can not touch, but which in a 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 395 

diviner world will behold the King in His beauty and 
grow toward perfect loveliness forever and ever. — Great 
Thoughts. 

Things that seem almost impossible to come to pass, God 
will bring to pass. — Lydia Kenney. 

It is a blessed thing to be ready for anything God wants 
us to do. — Rev. Bausman. 

Our Lord is equal to everything in our little lives. — 
Amelia Stewart. 

The Lord plucks brands from the devil's burning and 
transforms them into great fixed stars of righteousness 
and truth, to shine forever in the heavenly world. — Rev. B. 
Carradine. 

Humanity needs leaders. God prepares and provides 
them. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

I am nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is all in all. — Rev. 
J. S. Inskip. 

My business is to honor God in all that I think or do. — 
Rev. D. J. Bunce. 

We must first be partakers of, before we can be partakers 
with, Christ. — Clara Boyd. 

Christ is a real Saviour. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Many people keep themselves so far from God that they 
can not, or will not, hear His voice. — /. B. Lyde. 

Fretting against evil-doers damages them but little, but 
us much. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

We do not know the best way for the answering of our 
prayers, but God knows and we can trust Him. — West- 
minster Quarterly. 

We need the hallowing touch of God's hand and the light 
of His countenance. — Rev. Guy Pearse. 



396 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

There is nothing that touches us in any way that may 
not be made to minister good to us. — Rev. J. R. Miller, 

D. D. 

We are not to blame all our mistakes upon the Lord. — 
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

O, to be the confidant, the friend of God ! — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

May love conquer selfishness and faith conquer fear. — 
Ernest Lee Thompson. 

How patiently God works to teach us. How long He 
waits for us to learn the lesson. — Ruskin. 

What God wants is your heart loyalty. — Rev. M. W. 
Knapp. 

We want to get our hearts close to the heart of Jesus so 
we can get the strong pulsation of His life into our life. — 
Rev. J. H. Flower. 

There is beautiful vision for every one who is hid away 
in Christ. — Selected. 

You can not go with the devil without getting his mark 
on you. The same with the Lord. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

God created man with a religious constitution. — Rev. 
W. B. Godbey. 

The importunate man asked for three loaves — justifica- 
tion, sanctification and power. — S. A. P. 

God will give you all you are ready to take by faith and 
use to His glory. — Silent Evangelist 

God created a soul for Himself. — Rev. Aura Smith. 

Christ makes us alive in the depths of our being. — James 

E. C. Sazvyer, D. D. 

God always wins us by offering us something better than 
we have. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 397 

Each lonely follower of " Jesus only " may say with the 
psalmist, " I am as a wonder to many." — Rev. E. I. D. 
Pepper. 

The righteousness of God is bound to my soul. My soul 
is bound to Him. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The church of Antioch was the first church established for 
the Gentiles. — Dr. Fowler. 

Soul growth is the only gain that is real. — Selected. 

The Jewish age came to a close when Christ died. — Rev. 
G. D. Watson. 

I learned a long time ago, how to get God between me and 
my circumstances. — Rev. Diver ty. 

It is idle for us to undertake to live the Christian life in a 
worldly spirit. — Dr. Albert Banks. 

The soul quality rules. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

When you think everything is going to pieces, then the 
Bible reads that the foundation of the Lord standeth sure. 
— Rev. George M. Bradhead. 

Human nature is dead and beyond the power of self-im- 
provement. God has simply provided for its burial and its 
resurrection through the risen Christ. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Everything before the true believer is glorious. — Dr. 
Bonar. 

The great purpose of God is to save you, lift you up and 
dignify you. — Bishop Wilson. 

Take the things of God and let the Holy Ghost make them 
real to you. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

Our life is nothing but a wilderness if you take Jesus out 
of it. — Rev. J. H. Flower. 

God means that we shall have the best in this life. — Bishop 
Wilson. 



398 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We can know we are right. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

It is our happiness as Christians that, however we may 
change our place, we shall never change our object. — 
Richard Cecil. 

The fuller one's appreciation of his proper relation to 
God's enterprises and the more lively his efforts therein, 
the larger the life he lives. — John J. McCabe. 

I am in love with old-fashioned religion. — Rev. J. H. 
Flower. 

God will meet us, if we want Him to meet us. — Mrs. T. 
H. Robertson. 

We are not away from God by necessity, but away from 
Him by choice. — Rev. Pennington. 

God comes into every surrendered heart that is given up 
to Him.— Rev. L. L. Pickett. 

If you do not wish to get hurt, keep hidden " with Christ 
in God." — The Silent Evangelist. 

Never be ashamed to call a man a brother whom God is 
not ashamed to call a son. — The Pentecostal Era. 

God never asked us to do more than we have time and 
strength for. — Davis. 

What are we accumulating in heaven, and in ourselves 
here ? — John Humpstne. 

When God helps, who can hinder? — Spurgeon. 

Open the door of your heart and let Jesus come in and 
drive out the evil spirits. — Selected. 

No true religious service is as small as it appears at the 
time. — Rev. Isaiah Re id. 

The power that fills the hearts of men and women with 
love, puts the light of joy in their eyes and words of praise 
in their mouths. — /. P. McCall. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 399 

Christ wants all His friends to be outspoken in their de- 
votions. — Dr. Miller. 

God knows the end from the beginning, and if you are 
faithful and stick to your post, He will make you a pillar 
in the temple of the living God from whence you shall not 
be removed. — /. W. S. 

When we get out of the way and let God work, His power 
will be manifested. — Rev. Mrs. Nash. 

Being on God's side is to be identified with Him. — Rev. 
Isaiah Reid. 

What marvelous transformations in human nature, 
character, life, employment, are made* by the gospel. — Rev. 
E. I. D. Pepper. 

Of every present hour it may be said, " What thou doest 
thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." — 
Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

God made man for a purpose and so constituted that he 
may walk with God, and the Book teaches us that God under- 
stands His business. — Rev. W. B. Ray. 

The song of the past is sweet, but not sweeter than the 
" now " nor the coming " sweet bye and bye." — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

God has all things made to order for His people who will 
accept them. — Selected. 

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most in 
divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest Christian. 
— Christian Witness. 

He who trusts in the Eternal, is eternally safe. — Christian 
Standard. 

It should be Christ first, last, and always and forever. — 
Selected. 



400 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. — Hare. 

The fiercest headwinds and the angriest waves obey the 
Lord's will, and so will He bring you at last into your desired 
haven. — Rev. Theodore L. Citylcr. 

To be a living soul is to draw life from Him who is the 
Life and to pour out that life in the struggle toward a 
worthy, dominant purpose. — Sunday School limes. 

When you get right with God you will hear from Him. — 
Selected. 

To seek happiness from any other source than from God, 
is wrong. The man that is cleansed from all sin and filled 
with the love of God will not desire happiness from any 
other source. — Rev. S. B. Shaw. 

It is the privilege of a Christian to know that he belongs 
to Christ, and is saved from sin. — Rev. D. Robinson. 

The Christian life is a vineyard to be cultivated. — /. IV. 
Hill, Sr., D. D. 

Worship is a state of the soul in which it gazes with 
awe, with adoration, with rapture, upon the Deity. — Rev. 
T. C. Reade. 

God's gentleness makes us great. — Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 

Few go far into the depths of the knowledge of God. — 
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

The soul was made for God and Him only. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

It takes more grace to know how to suffer aright, than 
how to rejoice. — Selected. 

Our brightest and best spiritual ideas come to us in times 
of sorest trial. — Selected. 

God is still saying to thee, " Son, all that I have is thine." 
— Rev. E. I. D. Pepper. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 40I 

Verily God's loved ones may find rich gleanings in the 
corners of the field. — Rev. U. G. Johnson. 

While God was preparing Moses to lead His people from 
bondage to freedom He was also preparing the hearts of 
Israel and getting them ready to be led out of Egypt. — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 

Divine power made over to man; liberty to search the 
vaults of heaven and take what he will. — Rev. Helm. 

The deepest truths of redemption are not intellectually but 
spiritually discerned. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

You will never possess any more of Christ than you claim 
for your own. — Webb Peploe. 

God wants to make you a Gideon for His glory and His 
cause. — S. A. P. 

The secret of oneness with Christ is in walking in the 
light. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

We must use positive words. Any other kind makes us 
doubt. — Selected. 

" I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." Without a way 
one goes not, without truth one knows not, without a life one 
can not live. — Matthew Arnold. 

Let Christ be the unseen, but truly recognized, guest in 
your home ; and teach your child the religion of " the Book." 

— /. R. Stair. 

If to-day we are willing to live for God, on some to- 
morrow we shall be willing to die for Him. — Northwestern 
Christian Advocate. 

Religion is a glorious thing; it commends itself to all 
mankind. — Christian Witness. 

Our God is able to conquer all His foes by many or few. 

— S.A.P. « 

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402 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

Take Christ into your life and do everything to His glory. 
— Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

God oftentimes chooses the few to manifest His strength 
and His power to this unsaved world, in order that they 
may get His saving faith. — 5\ A. P. 

For my part, in the worst mood I am ever in, when I 
don't feel I love God at all, I just look up to His love. I 
say to him : " Look at me. See what state I am in. Help 
me." O, you would wonder how that makes peace. And 
the love comes of itself; sometimes so strong it nearly 
breaks my heart. — George MacDonald. 

Gentleness is love in action. — Rev. J. A. Kring. 

The fourteenth chapter of John tells us how to get. 
The fifteenth tells us how to maintain. The sixteenth tells 
the results. — Rev. Helm. 

The peacemakers are those who have peace themselves, 
and go and come at the bidding of the Master. — Rev. Paid 
Jones. 

The solution of every problem of society is the love of 
God. — George D. Herron. 

We must show sinners that there is something better than 
the world can give. — Lydia Kenney. 

God is the only remedy for the " missing link " in the 
human spirit. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

There is a soul sight. But for it, many of us would have 
gone down long ago. By it we read our titles clear to man- 
sions in the skies. — Rev. B. Carradine. 

There is a richness of life as one gets away from Jericho 
borders, up into the heart of the land. — Rev. Isaiah Rcid. 

The successful life is one that is guided by the Holy Ghost. 
E. H. Cook. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 403 

Not one of God's promises is uncongenial. — Rev. B. Helm. 

We can know God as He is revealed to us. — Rev. C. W. 
Ruth. 

A life allied to God is stable, come what may. — Margaret 
E. Sangster. 

If we follow Christ it may not always be easy, but it will 
bring us to a beautiful life. — Northwestern Christian Advo- 
cate. 

Jesus will teach us how to think, will teach us how to 
love, will teach us how to pray. — Rev. Seth C. Rees. 

Live by the day and the moment. Watch your words. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

Every station of life is sacred that has Christ in it. — 
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. 

One with Christ is always a majority. — Chimes. 

It is God's wise dealing which gives us the experience of 
many things, before it brings us to the crown of all things. 
— Sunday School Times. 

He who would live upon the high plane of faith can not 
lodge on the lowlands of the wilderness. — The Silent 
Evangelist. 

God will bring the burdened ones to us, if we are rested 
from our own burdens sufficiently to help them. — Christian 
Missionary Alliance. 

See that day by day you begin with God ; and beginning 
with God, He will enable you to go through the day with the 
sweet knowledge of God. — /. Hudson Taylor. 

Christ is the best teacher. — Rev. C. P. Mar den. 

God gives bountifully, — bountiful rains, bountiful sun- 
shine, bountiful harvests, a bountiful sea are the gifts of His 
hand. — Selected. 



404 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

God sometimes lets us have our fill of earthly things to 
show ns how incapable they are of satisfying the heart or of 
being a substitute for God. — Rev. A. B. Simpson. 

Make a perfect surrender to Christ and find a perfect 
victory. — Selected. 

Prefering one another in honor, is sanctified self-respect. — 
Way of Faith. 

Try so to live in the light of God's love that it becomes 
a second nature to you. — Jean Nicholas Grau. 

The Spirit will " answer to the blood " and tell you that 
you are " born of God." — Rev. C. O. Moult on. 

Find God's place for yourself and then strike out boldly. 
— God's Revivalist. 

It costs something to live a holy life among men, but it 
pays much more than it costs. — Rev. C. O. Moulton. 

Three nothings: Lamentations i: 21, "Is it nothing to 
you?" Luke 7:42, "Nothing to pay." Matthew 22:12, 
" He was speechless." Nothing to answer. — Rev. E. L. 
Hyde. 

Our heavenly Father wants all His children to be strong. 
He wants a healthy family. — Rev. F. P. Frost. 

Diamonds need neither apology nor defense. Neither does 
the man or church that lives right in the sight of God. — Rev. 
H. B. Hosley. 

Right on the spot where self has had nothing but failure, 
Jesus loves to give abundant success. — Rev. G. D. Watson. 

The baptism of water introduced Christ to His earthly 
ministry, and the baptism with the Spirit qualified Him for 
His earthly ministry, and the baptism with death finished 
His earthly ministry. The first was from man, and the second 
was from God, and the third was from Satan. — A. French. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 405 

Expect God to do something real for you every day. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

No man has a right to come before God without bringing 
some soul with him. — Rev. George Calvert Carter. 

If you make a great deal of Christ He will make a great 
deal of you, but if you make but little of Christ He will 
make but little of you. — Dr. R. A. Torrey. 

The humanity of Christ is the divine estimate of the 
worth of every man. — Dr. H. N. Snyder. 

God sends all kinds of weather to the soul which He 
would develop in His likeness. — George T. Packard. 

Let God plan for you and fit you into His plans, and then 
you can succeed. — The' Silent Evangelist. 

My boast is in Jesus Christ. I have found Him mighty 
to save to the uttermost, and to keep in perfect peace. — Rev. 
H. C. Morrison. 

If we obey this commandment, " Seek the greater gifts," 
we will conquer the world for Christ. — Rev. W. B. Godbey. 

People do live all the religion they have. — Selected. 

Christ is God's gift to man. He can never be happy 
without Him. — Edward Herbuck. 

It is not only folly, but it is extremely dangerous to trifle 
with God.— Rev. C. W. Ruth. 

The command of Jesus is, " Follow me." — Theodore L. 
Cuyler. 

The more we get our minds off ourselves and get them 
fixed on God and the welfare of others, the happier we 
shall be. — Rev. G. A. McLaughlin. 

The sun of this earthly life must go down, but to the 
man who has done the will of God, very beautiful and 
comfortable will be the evening. — Rev. B. Carradine. 



406 SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 

We must discard, as well as obtain — put off the old man 
as well as put on the new. — Rev. J. Murray Taylor. 

The citadel of a man's soul is depraved. Jesus came to 
save. — Bishop Joyce. 

Men must want heaven so much that they will sacrifice 
everything else. — Rev. H. C. Morrison. 

A saved soul need not grieve over the past. — Rev. Isaiah 
Reid. 

Wherever we are, we may do something for Christ. — 
Rev. Henry W. Little. 

Let us see to it that words of grace fall from our lips. — 
Christian Missionary Alliance. 

To be in harmony with God is to be at our best and come 
to our best. — Rev. Isaiah Reid. 

Every Christian should realize that he is not only under 
obligation to do no harm, but that it is also his duty to do 
all the good in his power. To do this, all of his time and 
talent must be spent in a way that will glorify God. — Rev. 
S. B. Shaw. 

Let us not be content to bear little fruit, when it is our 
privilege to furnish as good as there is to be had. — Rctta 
Shinn. 

One of the great teachings of Christianity is that the 
strong should bear with the weak. — Selected. 

Anything works where there is a heart experience of real 
religion behind it. — Rev. E. C. Cornell. 

If you have got true religion, you will act (as well as you 
know) just as God would if He were in your place. — Re7\ 
Bud Robinson. 

God has commands and directions to give us ; He has 
light and truths to show us. — E. C. 



SPIRITUAL FLASHLIGHTS. 407 

I have learned not to be concerned about my opinions, 
but to confess what Jesus has done for my soul. — Brother 
Stoddard. 

God's will is the brightest thing in our lives. — Selected. 

Peter did not deny Christ until he had warmed himself 
by the enemy's fire. — Rev. C. E. Cornell. 

I think of no greater inspiration to life than this, that we 
may please God. — Rev. Joseph H. Smith. 

After we came to God and were saved, we discovered it 
was He who had been making us want to be saved all the 
time. — Selected. 

The sweetest honey is gathered out of the hive of a busy, 
unselfish life. — Selected. 

The followers of Jesus Christ are the only people who are 
satisfied with their prospects for the life that is to come. — 
Rev. John Pennington. 

God is ready to break every chain the sinner will abandon. 

— Rev. M. L. Haney. 

It is as we pray, that power from on high is poured into 
our lives wherewith to do the work of God upon the lives 
of men. — The Silent Evangelist. 

Remember we are dealing with the Almighty God. — M. 
E. Howell. 

The persons who do not give God, Christ and the Holy 
Ghost due place in their lives are lacking in common sense. 

— John McGahie. 

The devil drives, but God leads His obedient children. — 
The Helper. 

There are times in life when nothing interests us as life 
after death. — Rev. Hugh Hay. 

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